On the front lines of climate change, the archipelago of 365 islands may all be underwater by 2050. But there is hope.

Marine heat waves that seemed extreme just a decade ago will become commonplace by the end of this century in waters favored ...

Bleached coral dies when exposed to heat stress for too long, threatening the bountiful marine ecosystem that depends on it ...

The algae that grows on patches of ice in Antarctica alters the albedo — or the ice's reflectivity — enough to make the ...

Extreme weather-related disasters are increasing in frequency around the world. See how climate change affected different ...

Beneath the surface of the Southern Ocean, vast volumes of cold, dense water plunge off the Antarctic continental shelf, cascading down underwater cliffs to the ocean floor thousands of meters below.

More than four-fifths of the world's coral reef areas have been affected by devastating mass bleaching spurred by record-high ...

Due to global warming, sea levels are rising rapidly. This could wreak havoc around the globe, as millions of people will be ...

An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84 percent of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis ...

Annual and seasonal average sea surface temperature (SST) maps are available for the Australian region. Long-term averages have been calculated over the standard 30-year period 1961-1990. A 30-year ...