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Oceans hit record-high July temperatures

Developing El Niño conditions are partly to blame, according to the EU's climate monitoring service.

The world's oceans hit their hottest ever recorded temperatures for July, partly fuelled by developing El Niño conditions in the Pacific, according to the EU's climate monitoring service Copernicus. The average sea surface temperature outside the world's polar regions was 20.96C last month, beating the previous high of 20.89C, set in 2023.

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