Hotter seas, dying oceans


A humpback whale named Festus that was found dead just outside the mouth of Glacier Bay, Alaska. — Craig Murdoch/National Park Service/ The New York Times

UNUSUAL heat waves have recently struck all of the world’s major ocean basins.

Some have been so extreme that scientists now use a chilling new term: super marine heat waves.

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