Earth’s prolonged streak of abnormal heat continued into 2025 despite the arrival of La Niña ocean conditions, which ...

Reductions in air pollution have helped warm the planet by cutting down on reflective particles in the atmosphere – but ...

Global average temperatures for 2024 were around 1.6C above those of the pre-industrial period - the time before humans ...

The rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past four decades, a new study has shown. Ocean temperatures were rising at about 0.06 degrees Celsius per decade in the late 1980s, but are ...

[AP Photo] "There is some evidence that the rate of warming over the past decade or ... It's the third time in the last eight years that a global heat record was set. Randall Cerveny, an Arizona ...

Theories are emerging suggesting that a decrease in aerosols accelerates the climate disaster. Does cleaner air accelerate global warming? James Hansen, a well-known climatologist who warned the U.S.

Global average temperatures for 2024 ... "Since 2023 we've had around 0.2C of extra warming that we can't fully explain, on top of what we had expected from climate change and El Niño," agrees ...

2024 was the warmest year on record and the first calendar year where the global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

"The record global warmth of the past two ... a massive carbon sink and climate regulator, were warming at a rate scientists "cannot fully explain", said Johan Rockstrom of the Potsdam Institute ...

This energy was released back to the surface when an opposite, warming El Nino event took over in mid-2023, boosting global temperatures. But the heat has lingered even after El Nino peaked in January ...

If global warming itself is melting reflective clouds ... And that is likely enough to explain 2024’s margin over the preceding year. This year is almost certain to be slightly cooler simply ...