The ocean stored more heat in 2025 than ever recorded, fueling sea level rise, extreme weather, and growing climate impacts ...

The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming ...

For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising and have not stopped since — and the pace is accelerating. Scientists are scrambling to ...

Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning today’s “once in a century” floods into regular events and pushing salt ...

Rising sea levels, largely caused by climate change, could disrupt the lives of millions of Americans in the coming decades. The U.S.'s extensive coastline, which is densely populated, will be ...

The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.