Paris: The Mediterranean Sea reached its highest temperature on record Thursday, Spanish researchers told AFP on Friday, breaking the record from July 2023.
“The maximum sea surface temperature record was broken in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday... with a daily median of 28.90C,” Spain’s leading institute of marine sciences said.
The previous record took place on July 24, 2023, with a median value of 28.71C.
These preliminary findings are taken from satellite data from the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program.
It means that for two successive summers the Mediterranean will have been warmer than during the exceptional summer heatwave of 2003, when a daily median was measured at 28.25C on August 23, a record that had stood for twenty years.
Such temperatures threaten marine life. During earlier heatwaves about 50 species including corals and molluscs were decimated.
The Mediterranean region has long been classified as a hotspot of climate change.
Mediterranean Sea broke daily temperature record Thursday: Spanish researchers
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Mediterranean Sea broke daily temperature record Thursday: Spanish researchers
- The previous record took place on July 24, 2023, with a median value of 28.71 C
Zelensky to meet European leaders in Berlin Monday: Germany
BERLIN: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to travel to Berlin on Monday and meet European leaders as well as the heads of the EU and NATO, German government spokesman Stefan Kornelius said.
Zelensky will attend a German-Ukrainian business forum and discuss “the status of peace negotiations in Ukraine” with Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Kornelius said on Friday.
“In the evening, numerous European heads of state and government, as well as the leaders of the EU and NATO, will join the talks,” he said in a statement.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer will be among the leaders attending the talks in Berlin, a UK government official said.
The meeting will be part of a flurry of diplomacy around a plan to end the conflict in Ukraine originally proposed by US President Donald Trump last month.
Ukrainian officials on Wednesday said they had sent Washington an updated version of the plan, building on Trump’s original 28-point proposal.
