Oceans suffer from record-breaking year ofheat amid climate change | BBC News

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The world's oceans have broken temperature recordsevery single day over the past year, BBC analysis has found.

Climate change and planet warming gases are mostlyto blame, though natural weather event El Niño has also helped warm the seas.

The super-heated oceans have hit marine life hard, andhas driven a new wave of coral bleaching.

The analysis is based on data from the EU'sCopernicus Climate Service - which also confirmedthat last month was the warmest April on record interms of global air temperatures.

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