The sudden shift in water temperature is puzzling scientists.
For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why.
In June, temperatures in the Atlantic were 2 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal in much of the ocean, with some areas getting as much as 9 degrees F warmer than average. Those temperatures weren’t a one-off, as the Atlantic had regularly seen record-breaking levels since March 2023. That year marked theThe hot water was partially a result of human-caused climate change, but it was also due to a particularly strong El Niño in 2023 and 2024.
“We’ve gone through the list of possible mechanisms, and nothing checks the box so far,” Frans Philip Tuchen, a postdoctoral student at the University of Miami, toldin over 99% of the Atlantic’s tropical reefs. Bleaching occurs when there is a change in conditions, leading algae living in the coral to get expelled. The result is bone-white coral, which not only affects biodiversity but also lessens reefs’ ability to blunt the impact of coastal storms and reduce flooding.
After the fire destroyed his town in 2021, a state rep took on insurance companies, mortgage lenders, and landlords—and beat them all.Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.To learn about how rocks and minerals get pushed from the Earth's mantle to the seafloor, scientists drilled a really, really deep hole.
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