PARIS: Despite the small dip in global carbon emissions because of restrictions on travel and other activities due to the coronavirus pandemic, global ocean temperatures, particularly Pacific, Arctic and Indian, continued breaking records in 2020, with a recent study reporting the highest ocean temperatures since 1955 from surface level to a depth of 2,000 meters.
Rare "sea smoke" is seen over waters off the coastal city of Qingdao, East China's Shandong Province, on January 7. GLOBAL TIMES PHOTO