This summer, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unveiled a new report forecasting dire consequences if the planet warms above a threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Kate ...

Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly 6 degrees Centigrade lower than the average temperature from then 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 ...

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 newest climate report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that climate change is “unequivocally” caused by humans and warns that global temperatures are expected to ...

The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said 2023 was the warmest calendar year in global temperature data stretching back to 1850. Extreme heat is fueled by the climate crisis, ...

The alarm bells are loud and clear. Federal and international climate officials recently confirmed that 2023 was the planet’s hottest year on record — and that 2024 may be even hotter. With a global ...

The mean global temperature briefly crossed a critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels likely for the first time on Friday, highlighting unprecedented global warming that ...

Consider that 3 degrees Fahrenheit is the difference between a raging fever and a healthy toddler. Between a hockey rink and a swimming pool. Between food going bad or staying at a safe temperature.

The claim: Earth has cooled 4 degrees Celsius since 'medieval times' and warmed only 0.7 degrees Celsius since 1850 A June 22 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows an edited excerpt from an ...