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    Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating

    The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest report on the oceans, and it's not good. The report also notes a relatively new phenomenon in the oceans: marine heat waves.
    by Rebecca Hersher Sep 25, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Thomas Wilburn

    As the world's climate changes, ocean warming is accelerating and sea levels are rising more quickly, warns a new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    The report is a synthesis of the most up-to-date climate science on oceans and ice, and it lays out a stark reality: Ocean surface temperatures have been warming steadily since 1970, and for the past 25 years or so, they've been warming twice as fast.

    Sea levels are also rising increasingly

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