Today is World Ocean Day. And beginning now, you can track our planet’s sea surface temperature with Earth in Action. Earth’s oceans, which account for around 71 percent of our planet’s surface area, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A broad zone of unusually warm ocean water stretches across the eastern Pacific in this March 26 sea surface temperature anomaly ...

Ocean temperatures may be quietly protecting the world from a global drought catastrophe. By analyzing more than a century of climate data, researchers discovered that droughts rarely spread across ...

Scientific models have predicted that climate change will drive oceans in the Northern Hemisphere to warm faster than oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. However, observational data over the last 70 ...

A typical map of temperatures across the planet shows just a snapshot in time, listing the day’s various highs and lows. But temperature isn’t static; it rises and falls, and it’s influenced by all ...

NASA has detected unusually warm waters across the equatorial Pacific, raising concerns that a powerful Super El Niño may already be underway. Scientists warn of potential impacts on weather, rainfall ...

All-time sea temperature highs would have consequences for weather patterns, global climate, and marine ecosystems, European ...

Get ready to hear a lot more about El Niño during the next several months — and maybe even longer — as the infamous climate cycle returns again, developing and intensifying in the Pacific Ocean near ...