A sign directs people to a cooling center at the Mid-Valley Senior Citizen Center in Panorama City, during the recent heat wave across California and the West. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) In a ...

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have been in the past decade It’s official: 2024 is the hottest year on ...

As the world edges closer to a sustained 2°C rise in global temperatures, new research shows billions more people could face ...

It’s no secret that Americans have an independence streak. We don’t use the metric system. We insist on writing dates with the month before the day—something virtually no other country does. And we ...

The planet's carbon budget has nearly reached its limit, a new study has found. Earth is already on the brink of surpassing an internationally agreed-upon threshold for climate warming, relative to ...

The world may be on track to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming in about three years, a group of scientists warned in a new paper. Researchers have called for keeping the planet’s warming to ...

In a troubling milestone, June marked Earth’s 12th consecutive month of global warming at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius — the internationally accepted threshold for avoiding the worst effects of ...