The world’s ocean temperatures reached the second-highest level on record for May, capping an “alarming” two-year streak of rapid warming and fuelling concerns about the seas’ ability to absorb rising levels of carbon dioxide.
The EU earth observation service Copernicus said the global average sea surface temperature in May was 20.79C, 0.14C below the record in the same month in 2024.
The findings follow an alert from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in recent days that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide had hit their highest seasonal peak since records began.
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