Once a picturesque garden beneath the sea, some stretches of the Florida Coral Reef have now become graveyards. Unburied ...

Marine heat waves (MHWs) are periods of unusually warm sea temperatures, recognized as one of the fastest emerging ...

Waves from the Pacific Ocean break along the coast near the 60-ft high Victoria Beach Pirate Tower on a summer day on Sept. 19, 2025 in Laguna Beach, Calif. Credit - Kevin Carter—Getty Images From ...

Across warming seas, record-breaking marine heat waves in 2023 underscored the growing vulnerability of ecosystems and human livelihoods. These events contributed to fishery losses and revealed region ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the ...

Corals bleach in warm ocean waters, making them particularly vulnerable as global temperatures rise due to climate change. — © AFP Corals bleach in warm ocean ...

The waters off California have grown quieter, and scientists are listening. New research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has found a sharp decline in the number of blue whale ...

Killer whales, including calves and juveniles, travel in their family group in the Gulf of Alaska in June 2025. It’s well documented by now that the marine heatwave that hit the Pacific Ocean in 2014 ...

It is comforting, in one extremely narrow sense, to know I wasn’t crazy. The marine heat waves that began in early 2023 and produced the 2024 chart of ocean temperatures that I wrote about on the very ...

Marine heat waves are said to occur when sea temperatures are much warmer than normal for at least five consecutive days. Ocean heat waves are threatening marine life When deadly heat waves hit on ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The planet would be a whole lot hotter if it weren’t for fecal pellets. Across the world’s oceans, tiny ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Although you won't see it in most weather reports, we're being affected by a heat wave, and it could have a profound effect on creatures -- from whales to sharks to threatened ...