Increase relative to 1850–1900 baseline; Chart: Kavya Beheraj/Axios Global warming is like a fever, says well-known climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe — even a small rise is serious. Why it matters: ...

A graph arguing that our current climate isn’t in a period of “unprecedented warmth” went viral when it was retweeted by Jordan Peterson, a controversial psychologist and author, to his 3.7 million ...

Last month wasn’t only the hottest June by far in the observed temperature record, but marked the first-ever 12-month stretch of the Earth’s average temperature exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of ...

A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, ...

Click the downloadable graphic: Top 10 Hottest Years in the U.S. Global carbon emissions from burning coal, oil, and methane gas climbed to their highest levels ever in 2024. This heat-trapping ...

Global warming in 2023 hit 1.48 degrees Celsius, data published Tuesday shows, as the hottest year on record propelled the world just hundredths of a degree away from a critical climate threshold.

The world’s oceans have now experienced an entire year of unprecedented heat, with a new temperature record broken every day, new data shows. Global ocean surface temperatures started breaking daily ...

The planet’s record heat streak continues. May 2024 marked 12 consecutive months of record-breaking global surface air temperatures. Final data for June 2024 will be available in the coming days, and ...

An Aug. 31 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) points out that a temperature record was set when there were far less people on Earth. "Highest temperature ever recorded 135⁰ in ~ Death Valley ~ ...

January 2025 was officially the hottest January ever recorded globally, according to new data released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), one of the federal ...