{"id":86940,"date":"2025-08-23T07:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:43:06","slug":"rising-seafloor-temperatures-risk-to-marine-life-plymouth-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/86940\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising seafloor temperatures risk to marine life &#8211; Plymouth study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rising seafloor temperatures could have a negative impact on marine life, an expert has said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new study has revealed marine heatwaves on the seafloor could be more than 50% more frequent in future than at the surface of the ocean during hot summer months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The study, by the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), described the findings as a &#8220;concerning prospect&#8221; for bottom-dwelling species which would not be able to escape rising temperatures. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Robert Wilson, lead scientist for the PML study, said a marine heatwave was a period where there were &#8220;very extreme temperatures&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising seafloor temperatures could have a negative impact on marine life, an expert has said. A new study&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-86940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}