Last year, 2024, was the warmest year on record for the planet, easily breaking the previous record set just a year earlier.

Scientists warn efforts to limit the long-term temperature rise to 1.5°C will fail as data confirms 2024 was the hottest year ...

A new report from the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service confirms that 2024 was the first year on record with a global average temperature exceeding 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. All ...

By Edward Carver Average temperatures across the world’s oceans reached an all-time high in 2024, a new multi-team study shows. The temperatures surpassed even those of 2023, which themselves ...

2024 was the first year to pass a milestone set by world leaders to try to keep the worst impacts of climate change at bay, ...

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global ...

A Dec. 26, 2024, Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows maps of purported Antarctic sea ice extent, or area, from Dec. 24, 1979, and the same day in 2024. Text above the graphic says the ...

A comparison of polar sea ice extents on two random days does not provide enough information to determine whether or not Earth's climate is changing.