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 ...

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 ...

Earth’s surface temperature is climbing at roughly 0.35 degrees Celsius per decade, nearly double the rate recorded before 2015, according to a peer-reviewed study by Grant Foster and Stefan Rahmstorf ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s average temperature last year sizzled at a feverishly elevated level, a jump up from trends of recent decades, but not quite as record-smashing hot as 2024, several climate ...

The aim of limiting global warming to no more than 1.5°C is slipping even further out of reach, as the latest climate data reveals global temperatures remain extremely high, with 2025 on course to ...

If you’re younger than 30, you’ve never experienced a month in which the average surface temperature of the Earth was below average. Each month, the US National Climatic Data Center calculates Earth’s ...

Scientists warn Earth may be nearing irreversible climate tipping points as global emissions rise and action lags behind ...