The impact of heatwaves like these, which last longer than their on-land counterparts because water cools down more slowly than air, can be devastating on marine wildlife.
Professor Joseph Dituri, has broken the record for the longest time living underwater without depressurisation at a Florida Keys lodge for scuba divers.
Half of Earth s coral reefs will be permanently damaged by 2035 if climate change continues unabated, a new study from the University of Hawaii has warned.
Sea sponges that provide food and shelter to other marine animals are losing their cells and dying. This is due to extreme temperatures warming oceans and causes stress for the sponges.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen estimate that seagrasses have released 32 billion Coke cans-worth of sugar into the soil.