Marine heatwave found to have engulfed area of ocean five times the size of Australia

June 6th, 2025

The Guardian, Other, 05/06/2025, Graham Readfearn
WorAlmost 40 million sq kilometres of ocean around south-east Asia and the Pacific – an area five times the size of Australia – was engulfed in a marine heatwave in 2024, a World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report has revealed. […] The region was 0.48C hotter than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, the WMO’s State of the Climate report stated.

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