Climate risk index shows threats to 90 per cent of the world's marine species

The biodiversity-rich Komodo Island in Indonesia is a climate risk hotspot. (Daniel G. Boyce), Author provided

Climate change impacts marine life through a bewildering web of complex pathways.

Warming oceans and climate extremes are driving species into deeper, more northern and cooler locations, altering their behaviour and reconfiguring marine ecosystems in radical and unprecedented ways.