07 Oct 2025
Photo by Uriel Soberanes Every part of the global ocean is now affected by the triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, according to the ninth Copernicus Ocean State Report published on 30 September 2025. “No part of the ocean is untouched by the triple planetary crisis, as pollution, biodiversity loss, […]
16 Sep 2025
Photo by Leon Rohrwild The world’s oceans absorbed around 1 billion tonnes less carbon dioxide in 2023 than expected — a drop of about 10% compared with previous years — according to new research led by ETH Zurich and published in Nature Climate Change. The team reported that record sea surface temperatures and shifting climate patterns weakened one of […]
08 Sep 2025
Photo by David Trinks Sobering projections reveal accelerating pressures Human impact on the world’s oceans will double by 2050, according to groundbreaking research published in the journal Science that provides the most comprehensive projection yet of future marine environmental pressures. The study, led by UC Santa Barbara’s National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, reveals an […]
25 Apr 2023
Record levels of greenhouse gases have caused “planetary scale changes on land, in the ocean and in the atmosphere”, a UN agency says in a report that shows the past eight years were the hottest ever recorded on Earth. Global sea levels are rising at more than double the pace they did in the first […]
29 Sep 2019
Global warming has already reached 1°C above the pre-industrial level, due to past and current greenhouse gas emissions. There is overwhelming evidence that this is resulting in profound consequences for ecosystems and people. The ocean is warmer, more acidic and less productive. Melting glaciers and ice sheets are causing sea level rise, and coastal extreme […]
10 Oct 2017
A new collaborative study, published in ‘Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems’, modelled how marine climate change could affect the future establishment of new species in northwest Europe, to enable scientists to understand the potential impacts to anticipate and plan for such establishing populations. Marine species can be accidentally transported via a range of activities […]
26 Sep 2016
Ocean warming – IUCN Report IUCN: Honolulu, Hawaii, 5 September (IUCN) – Ocean warming is affecting humans in direct ways and the impacts are already being felt, including effects on fish stocks and crop yields, more extreme weather events and increased risk from water-borne diseases, according to what has been called the most comprehensive review […]
18 Sep 2015
New research into the impact of climate change has found that warming oceans will cause profound changes in the global distribution of marine biodiversity. In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more […]
