Tag: ocean temperatures

• Wednesday, February 22nd 2023 - 08:03 UTC

  El Niño to cause irreversible thawing in Antarctica, study finds

  

  According to an investigation by the Australian Government's scientific agency (CSIRO), the “El Niño” phenomenon would cause an increase in underwater temperatures that would cause irreversible melting of the shelves and ice sheets, it was reported on Tuesday.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Ocean temperatures have been warming faster than estimated, shows latest scientific report

  

  The world’s oceans may be heating up faster than previously thought — meaning the planet could have even less time to avoid catastrophic global warming than predicted just weeks ago by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 07:42 UTC

  Manmade global warming is making 2013 the seventh warmest year since 1850

  

  This year is the seventh warmest since records began in 1850 with a trend to weather extremes and the impact of storms such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines aggravated by rising sea levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 22:27 UTC

  Report says fish species expected to shrink in size because of global warming

  

  Fish species are expected to shrink in size by up to 24% because of global warming, say scientists. Researchers modelled the impact of rising temperatures on more than 600 species between 2001 and 2050.