{"id":800746,"date":"2026-02-19T06:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800746"},"modified":"2026-02-19T06:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:46:29","slug":"rising-ocean-surface-temperatures-in-the-mediterranean-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800746","title":{"rendered":"Rising ocean-surface temperatures in the Mediterranean Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>\nEach year, the world\u2019s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites \u2013 and the latest\u00a0<i>10 New Insights in Climate Science<\/i>\u00a0report\u00a0<i>10 New Insights in Climate Science<\/i>\u00a0report\u00a0delivers a stark warning: the planet\u2019s energy balance is drifting further out of alignment, oceans are warming at unprecedented rates, and the land\u2019s capacity to absorb carbon is declining, along with other troubling trends.<br \/>Insight number two highlights that marine heatwaves are becoming more intense and prolonged. These changes are causing severe ecosystem damage, undermining coastal livelihoods, increasing extreme weather risks and weakening the ocean\u2019s capacity to absorb carbon.<\/p>\n<p>The image depicts sea-surface temperature anomalies in the\u00a0Mediterranean Sea\u00a0for August 2023 relative to 1985\u20132005, and highlights two cases of biodiversity loss.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read full story:\u00a0<\/b>Revealed: 10 new insights in climate science<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\">&lt;iframe width=&#8221;649&#8243; height=&#8221;360&#8243; src=&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; allow=&#8221;encrypted-media&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2026\/02\/Rising_ocean-surface_temperatures_in_the_Mediterranean_Sea?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, the world\u2019s leading climate scientists evaluate the most critical evidence on how our planet is changing. Their assessments draw heavily on data from Earth-observing satellites \u2013 and the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800747,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}