The forgotten ocean: Why COP26 must call for vastly greater ambition and urgency to address ocean change

Upper Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High in 2020

(2021) Lijing Cheng et al.   ADVANCES IN ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Southern Ocean in-situ temperature trends over 25 years emerge from interannual variability

(2021) Matthis Auger et al.   Nature Communications

Quantifying errors in observationally‐based estimates of ocean carbon sink variability

(2021) Lucas Gloege et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Opinion: Will understanding the ocean lead to “the ocean we want”?

(2021) Gerald G. Singh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

(2021) Rachel Kelly et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

The Ocean Decade—Opportunities for Oceans and Human Health Programs to Contribute to Public Health

(2021) Lora E. Fleming et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

The seven domains of action for a sustainable ocean

(2021) Joachim Claudet   CELL

Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

(2021) Enric Sala et al.   NATURE

Accelerated global glacier mass loss in the early twenty-first century

(2021) Romain Hugonnet et al.   NATURE

At-risk marine biodiversity faces extensive, expanding, and intensifying human impacts

(2021) Casey C. O’Hara et al.   SCIENCE

Micronutrient supply from global marine fisheries under climate change and overfishing

(2021) Eva Maire et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Terrestrial Water Storage Anomalies Emphasize Interannual Variations in Global Mean Sea Level During 1997–1998 and 2015–2016 El Niño Events

(2021) Yan‐Ning Kuo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Satellite and Ocean Data Reveal Marked Increase in Earth’s Heating Rate

(2021) Norman G. Loeb et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Time to integrate global climate change and biodiversity science‐policy agendas

(2021) Nathalie Pettorelli et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The Montreal Protocol protects the terrestrial carbon sink

(2021) Paul J. Young et al.   NATURE

The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean

(2021) Kirsten Grorud-Colvert et al.   SCIENCE

Integrate biodiversity targets from local to global levels

(2021) David O. Obura et al.   SCIENCE

A meta-analysis of the ecological and economic outcomes of mangrove restoration

(2021) Jie Su et al.   Nature Communications

Financing a sustainable ocean economy

(2021) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   Nature Communications

The blue carbon wealth of nations

(2021) Christine Bertram et al.   Nature Climate Change

Advancing Social Equity in and Through Marine Conservation

(2021) Nathan J. Bennett et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences

(2021) Jacqueline D Lau et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Transdisciplinary analysis of Pacific tuna fisheries: A research framework for understanding and governing oceans as social-ecological systems

(2021) Victoria Syddall et al.   MARINE POLICY

A new way forward for ocean-climate policy as reflected in the UNFCCC Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue submissions

(2021) Bobbi-Jo Dobush et al.   CLIMATE POLICY

Consolidating sea level acceleration estimates from satellite altimetry

(2020) Tadea Veng et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Poleward Shift of the Major Ocean Gyres Detected in a Warming Climate

(2020) Hu Yang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets

(2020) Callum M. Roberts et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Understanding the value and limits of nature-based solutions to climate change and other global challenges

(2020) Nathalie Seddon et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mobile protected areas for biodiversity on the high seas

(2020) Sara M. Maxwell et al.   SCIENCE

Deep-reaching acceleration of global mean ocean circulation over the past two decades

(2020) Shijian Hu et al.   Science Advances

Understanding climate change through Earth’s energy flows

(2020) Kevin E. Trenberth   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND

The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change

(2020) Christopher H. Trisos et al.   NATURE

Rebuilding marine life

(2020) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   NATURE

Global declines in human‐driven mangrove loss

(2020) Liza Goldberg et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seagrass losses since mid‐20th century fuelled CO 2 emissions from soil carbon stocks

(2020) Cristian Salinas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Opinion: Midwater ecosystems must be considered when evaluating environmental risks of deep-sea mining

(2020) Jeffrey C. Drazen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Increasing trends in regional heatwaves

(2020) S. E. Perkins-Kirkpatrick et al.   Nature Communications

Seagrass Restoration Is Possible: Insights and Lessons From Australia and New Zealand

(2020) Yi Mei Tan et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

El Niño Driven Changes in Global Fire 2015/16

(2020) Chantelle Burton et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Challenges to the sustainability of deep-seabed mining

(2020) Lisa A. Levin et al.   Nature Sustainability

Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef

(2020) Andreas Dietzel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unfinished business after five decades of ozone-layer science and policy

(2020) Susan Solomon et al.   Nature Communications

Increasing ocean stratification over the past half-century

(2020) Guancheng Li et al.   Nature Climate Change

Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post‐COVID‐19

(2020) D. Laffoley et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Benefits of the Paris Agreement to ocean life, economies, and people

(2019) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   Science Advances

Global Disease Outbreaks Associated with the 2015–2016 El Niño Event

(2019) Assaf Anyamba et al.   Scientific Reports

Prediction of unprecedented biological shifts in the global ocean

(2019) G. Beaugrand et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global warming has increased global economic inequality

(2019) Noah S. Diffenbaugh et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fisheries subsidies wreck ecosystems, don’t bring them back

(2019) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   NATURE

Ecological risk assessment for deep-sea mining

(2019) Travis W. Washburn et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

A global assessment of marine heatwaves and their drivers

(2019) Neil J. Holbrook et al.   Nature Communications

Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries

(2019) Lauric Thiault et al.   Science Advances

Big Jump of Record Warm Global Mean Surface Temperature in 2014-2016 Related to Unusually Large Oceanic Heat Releases

(2018) Jianjun Yin et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Global patterns and impacts of El Niño events on coral reefs: A meta-analysis

(2018) Danielle C. Claar et al.   PLoS One

Trends in continental temperature and humidity directly linked to ocean warming

(2018) Michael P. Byrne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Northward Pathway Across the Tropical North Pacific Ocean Revealed by Surface Salinity: How do El Niño Anomalies Reach Hawaii?

(2018) Audrey Hasson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Impact of the 2015/2016 El Niño on the terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by bottom-up and top-down approaches

(2018) Ana Bastos et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Extreme weather and climate events with ecological relevance: a review

(2017) Caroline C. Ummenhofer et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change

(2017) Callum M. Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global risk of deadly heat

(2017) Camilo Mora et al.   Nature Climate Change

Your evidence or mine? Systematic evaluation of reviews of marine protected area effectiveness

(2016) Paul Woodcock et al.   FISH AND FISHERIES

Cutting a lifeline to maritime crime: marine insurance and IUU fishing

(2016) Dana D Miller et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Rehabilitating mangrove ecosystem services: A case study on the relative benefits of abandoned pond reversion from Panay Island, Philippines

(2016) Clare Duncan et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The right incentives enable ocean sustainability successes and provide hope for the future

(2016) Jane Lubchenco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Intensification and poleward shift of subtropical western boundary currents in a warming climate

(2016) Hu Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Global impacts of the 1980s regime shift

(2015) Philip C. Reid et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet

(2015) W. Steffen et al.   SCIENCE

The influence of global sea surface temperature variability on the large-scale land surface temperature

(2014) Nicholas L. Tyrrell et al.   CLIMATE DYNAMICS

Sea surface salinity and barrier layer variability in the equatorial Pacific as seen from Aquarius and Argo

(2013) Tangdong Qu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

The Loss of Species: Mangrove Extinction Risk and Geographic Areas of Global Concern

(2010) Beth A. Polidoro et al.   PLoS One

Extreme longevity in proteinaceous deep-sea corals

(2009) E. B. Roark et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA