Ocean heat is off the charts – here’s what that means for humans and ecosystems around the world
El Niño is partly to blame, but underlying everything is global warming
El Niño is partly to blame, but underlying everything is global warming
The 'warming stripes' graphic shows a shift from blue to red stripes as greenhouse gas emissions have warmed the planet
As global temperatures inch upward, Florida is obviously on the vanguard of a rising threat to life and health.
Miami-Dade County is projected to have the highest increase in days per year with a heat index of 100 or ...
Hurricanes are intensifying faster, reaching further inland and costing billions in damage as the climate warms.
The spike in temperatures has some questioning whether human-caused heating has propelled the climate past a tipping point.
Climate change is causing rapid and often hard to predict impacts on species dynamics and distribution.
Blame climate change, El Niño and a dose of bad luck.
If humanity fails to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, increasingly worse heat records will tumble beyond this decade.
El Niño dramatically dampens hurricane activity, but at the same time record ocean heat is bubbling up in the Atlantic.
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