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

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 ...

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, ...

Researchers looked at long-term global surface temperatures ... over a long period of time. 'Imagine temperature records ...

The ocean stores about 90% of the excess heat from human-caused global warming and is ... Image courtesy of Cheng et al. The long-term rise in ocean temperatures isn’t just an effect of climate ...

Limiting long-term average temperature rises to 1.5C is seen as particularly important. In a landmark agreement signed in Paris in 2015, almost 200 countries pledged to try to curb global warming ...

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 ...

Climate change − a global phenomenon − can neither be confirmed nor disproven by comparing Antarctic sea ice extent on two individual days.