The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more

By Matthew England, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Our Future Oceans and Scientia Professor in Oceanography, UNSW Sydney, Alex Sen Gupta, Associate Professor in Climate Science, UNSW Sydney and Alistair Hobday, Chief Research Scientist – Environment, CSIRO

The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June, pushing past records set during the 2023–24 El Niño years....