In 2025, Earth’s oceans quietly broke another heat record—fueling a hotter, more extreme future. A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year ... Read more In 2025, Earth’s oceans quietly broke another heat record—fueling a hotter, more extreme future. A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations began. The findings, published today (January 9) in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, show that ocean heat content reached an unprecedented [...] Show less

Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisisThe world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another new... Read more Oceans absorb 90% of global heating, making them a stark indicator of the relentless march of the climate crisisThe world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another new record and fuelling more extreme weather, scientists have reported.More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon pollution is taken up by the oceans. This makes ocean heat one of the starkest indicators of the relentless march of the climate crisis, which will only end when emissions fall to zero. Almost every year since the start of the millennium has set a new ocean heat record. Continue reading... Show less

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A new international analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on 9 January finds that Earth's oceans stored more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern measurements began.

For the eighth year in a row, the world’s oceans absorbed a record-breaking amount of heat in 2025. It was equivalent to the energy it would take to boil 2 billion Olympic swimming pools.

The world’s ocean absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any other year on record

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