Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

For decades, global temperature averages have been the yardstick by which we measure our planet's fever. Leaders gather at ...

It’s official: The year 2024 was indeed the hottest on record. It was also the first year in recorded history that Earth’s average temperature was higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial ...

This week saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees ...

Global temperature records that once seemed distant are now falling in quick succession, and 2025 has pushed the climate ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

Global surface temperature is the average temperature of the Earth’s surface at a given time. It is a combination of the near ...

The stretch of Earth's record-breaking global temperatures continues as the planet experiences its 10th consecutive record-breaking month. March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling ...