The Sargasso Sea near Bermuda is warmer, saltier and more acidic than it has ever been since measurements began in 1954 — and the impact of such significant changes could be far reaching, researchers have warned.
The scientists made the startling discovery while studying decades' worth of data from the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS), the world's longest-running record of oceanographic properties that collects deep-sea measurements in the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda.
