Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating

September 25, 2019
Salmon swim upstream in Seattle in 2017. A mass of abnormally warm water off the West Coast of the U.S. that year contributed to a federal fishery disaster. Warming oceans and rising sea levels are threatening coastal economies as the world

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the oceans, and it's not good. The report also notes a relatively new phenomenon in the oceans: marine heat waves.

(Image credit: Elaine Thompson/AP)



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