{"id":65484,"date":"2024-07-10T11:59:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T02:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/10\/new-zealand-sea-temperatures-record-highs-global-average"},"modified":"2024-07-10T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T02:59:48","slug":"new-zealands-sea-temperatures-hit-record-highs-outstripping-global-averages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65484","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s sea temperatures hit record highs, outstripping global averages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine life<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s sea temperatures have hit record highs, outstripping global averages threefold in one region, and prompting alarm over the health of the country\u2019s marine life and ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.govt.nz\/news\/oceanic-and-coastal-water-temperatures-highest-since-the-series-began\/\">data from Stats NZ<\/a> shows since 1982, oceanic sea-surface temperatures have increased on average between 0.16 \u2013 0.26C a decade, and between 0.19\u20130.34C a decade, in coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/10\/new-zealand-sea-temperatures-record-highs-global-average\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say the new figures dispel the notion that the country is protected from extreme temperatures and raise fears for local marine lifeNew Zealand\u2019s sea temperatures have hit record highs, outstripping global averages threefold in one region, and p&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2331,65,56,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-new-zealand","category-oceans"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65485,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65484\/revisions\/65485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}