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The New York Times5y
2019 Was a Record Year for Ocean Temperatures, Data Show
Last year was the warmest year on record for the world’s oceans, part of a long-term warming trend, according to a study released Monday. “If you look at the ocean heat content, 2019 is by far ...
Time5y
2019 Was the Second-Hottest Year Globally on Record, and Ocean Temperatures Are Hotter Than Ever
Five of the warmest years in recorded history have occurred since 2015. Global average temperatures in 2019 were 1.71°F (0.95°C) above the 20th century average, according to a new study by the ...
Business Insider5y
We've put the heat equivalent of 3.6 billion Hiroshima bomb explosions into the oceans. The water was hotter last year than ever in recorded history.
According to an April 2019 study, Greenland's ice sheet is sloughing off an average of 286 billion tons of ice per year. Two decades ... chunk of ocean near New Zealand experienced an ...
Forbes5y
Ocean 2019 – Where We Stand One Year Later On Driving Investment At Scale
As Secretary John Kerry so eloquently said last week at the 2019 ... ocean pollution is in our hands. Since last year’s Our Ocean conference in Indonesia, I’ve been amazed at the way new ...
OPB4y
Are marine heat waves the new normal for the Pacific Ocean?
This year brought one of the biggest marine ... Heat maps illustrate the record-setting ocean surface temperatures in 2014, 2019 and 2020. But although “the blob” retreated in 2018, the ...
Time5y
Ringing in a New Decade: See How New Year’s 2020 Is Celebrated All Over the World
The ball drops during the 2020 New Year Celebration on December 31, 2019 in New York City.Roy Rochlin—Getty Images One hour behind New York, New Orleans celebrated the new year at 1 a.m. EST.
Science News3y
Australian fires in 2019–2020 had even more global reach than previously thought
The severe, devastating wildfires that raged across southeastern Australia in late 2019 and early 2020 packed a powerful punch that extended far beyond the country, two new studies find.