warmer sea

The sea gets warmer – the species die.

It’s not just coral reefs and fish that are threatened as the oceans warm – it’s all life.

Not since an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs – along with at least half of all other creatures on Earth – has marine life been so vulnerable.

As the oceans get warmer, all habitats are threatened. There are species that do better than others, but all are affected. Biodiversity, the diversity of species, is threatened which in turn will affect us all.

Over the past decade, sea temperatures in the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia have been the warmest in 400 years, according to...
Text: TT/News Agency
Photo: Sam McNeil/AP/TT
Warmer seawater combined with acidification could pose a major threat to ocean sharks. Their eggs develop much more poorly, leading to the death of the...
Text: Roland Johansson/TT
Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT, Noémie Coulon/TT
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has published this year's State of the Ocean Report, which describes...
Text: Lena Scherman
Photo: Tobias Dahlin, Johan Candert
The situation for fish, birds and seals in the Swedish seas remains critical. We fish too much and release too many harmful substances, says Mats...
Text: Petra Hedbom/TT
Photo: Heribert Proepper/AP/TT
The sea ice around Antarctica is decreasing and is significantly less than what is normal for the month of September....
Text: TT News Agency
Photo: Tore Meek/NTB/TT
The fish in the oceans have shrunk - but at the same time have become more numerous, shows a new global study. This suggests that...
Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT
Photo: Robert F. Bukaty/AP/TT
The world's coral reefs are in trouble. As the oceans get warmer, corals are stressed and eventually die. Coral scientist Tessa Hempson calls corals the...
Reportage: Johan Candert
Photo: Johan Candert, Göran Ehlmé, Leif Eiranson
Healthy habitats with a diversity of species are important, not least for us to cope with a rapidly changing climate. We have been to the...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photography: Kimmo Hagman
Editor: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos
The Baltic Sea is becoming a hot water bath. It affects the fish more than we might understand. It is a slow process that can...
Reportage: Lena Scherman
Photo:Elin Jenjila Franzén, Alexandre Gobatti
UW-Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Robert Westerberg
Drone:Robert Westerberg
Editing: Apollonia Meleouni
"We know approximately how much the fish poop, how much carbon it contains and also how quickly the feces reach the bottom. Against this background,...
Text: Fanny Jönsson
Photo: Johan Candert, Pablo Cozzaglio / AFP / TT Image
How are we affected by the oceans getting warmer?...
Text: Fanny Jönsson
Photo: TT News Agency
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