World Weather Attribution estimated that human-caused warming added about 2°C to Mediterranean extremes and greatly enlarged the affected area. The rapid analysis warns of impacts on species, fisheries, coastal health and heavy rain, while remaining subject to later scientific review.
Sea-surface temperature averaged 20.96°C, delivering a second consecutive monthly record, Copernicus says. The tropical Pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean concentrated anomalies, while July tied the second-highest global temperature at 1.47°C above pre-industrial levels.
A study compared three previously trawled seamounts with Solito, where no evidence of trawling was found. Live corals, sponges and biodiversity have not recovered even after more than a quarter-century without bottom trawling.
The Seaweed-Based Products for Decarbonization tool identifies opportunities, limits and priorities for scaling seaweed-based products in agriculture, biomaterials, critical minerals, food, animal feed and biofuels.
A subpolar Atlantic region south of Greenland and Iceland is cooling while much of the planet warms. Recent studies link that signal to changes in ocean heat transport and reinforce the need to monitor the AMOC without simplified diagnoses or alarmism.