Scientists warn that the significant coral bleaching, which the American weather agency NOAA warned about earlier this year, has spread to several places on earth.
Climate change occurred at an ominously high rate between 2011 and 2020, a new report shows. It looks particularly bad for the world's glaciers, which shrank by around 1 meter a year.
The world's oceans have been warmer than usual recently. The weather phenomenon El Niño is pointed out as a possible culprit, but the top rating is also part of a larger problem that is expected to set many new heat records.