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Global News Podcast

Oceans suffer from record breaking year of heat

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sea temperatures broke records every day over the past year, hitting marine life hard and driving a new wave of coral bleaching. China's President Xi Jinping visits Serbia. A BBC investigation uncovers clear ties between members of Germany's AfD party, and former neo-Nazi networks. Russia's last Eurovision contestant says she won't stop protesting against the war in Ukraine. And how a peanut and milk allergy trial is transforming lives.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the global news podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:04.0

I'm Nick Miles and at 13 hours gmpte on Wednesday the 8th of May these are our main stories.

0:08.9

The world's oceans have broken temperature records every day over the past year.

0:14.0

Israel reopens one of the main aid crossings into Gaza, but thousands of people flee

0:18.7

Rafa ahead of an expected ground incursion.

0:22.0

A BBC investigation

0:23.4

uncovers clear ties between members of Germany's

0:26.3

AFD party and former neo-Nazi networks.

0:29.8

The AFD clearly states a political point of view turning Germany into something that we've only seen between 1933 and 45. Also in this podcast, how a peanut and milk allergy trial is transforming lives and the man from Nepal dedicating his life to the conservation of owls.

1:00.1

We start with a stark warning about the impact of climate change.

1:04.4

The world's oceans have broken temperature records every single day over the past year.

1:10.4

The BBC analysis is based on data from the European Union's Copernicus climate service.

1:16.0

Nearly 50 days have smashed existing highs for the time of year by the largest margin in the satellite era.

1:24.3

Justin Rolut is our climate editor.

1:26.7

It's a confirmation of something that we all knew,

1:29.9

which is that the world has been going through this extraordinarily warm streak.

1:34.4

As you say, every single day for an entire year has set a new daily average sea surface

1:40.4

temperature record for that day. That is an extraordinary thing to happen.

1:44.3

We're not inching past the previous records. We are really blasting through them.

1:48.4

So on around 47 days, the existing high was exceeded by at least a third of a degree

1:54.0

Celsius. Now that may not sound much but remember this is an average across the

1:59.2

seas and oceans of the entire world. So that is a huge margin.

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