each month from January to June was the warmest such month on record; and levels of planet-heating pollution reached unprecedented highs. Last year is part of a pattern of off-the-charts heat.

Scientific agencies around the world confirmed that 2024 surpassed the global temperature record set in 2023 as carbon emissions contribute to extreme weather.

Climate organizations are warning that last year was the hottest on record. The global average temperature was higher than the averages at the end of the 19th century before the widespread burning of ...

The world set yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly U.S., a cooling La Nina​​ and predictions of a slightly less hot 2025, the European climate service Copernicus ...

"Once again, the temperature record has been shattered — 2024 was the hottest year since record keeping began in 1880." Scientists have largely attributed this temperature rise to the increase ...

According to data from Copernicus and the World Meteorological Organization, 2024 has surpassed the previous record set in 2023 as the hottest year on record. In 2024, the global average ...

Despite a predicted downturn in temperatures after several record-breaking years, a reduction in coal burning may have had an unexpected impact.

Turkey experienced its hottest year on record in 2024, its weather agency said Monday, as bouts of extreme temperatures multiplied across the globe due to climate change. "In 2024, the average ...

wrote '1.5 Is Dead' using chalk paint as a reference to the newly published figures stating that 2024 was the hottest year on record. (photo by Kristian Buus/In Pictures via Getty Images ...

and set a new record high average annual temperature across the state. Last year was Maine’s hottest on record, with midsummer and late fall heatwaves and record temperatures in the north ...