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, ...

Two years later, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was established to stabilize the amount of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere at a level that would “prevent dangerous ...

The planet could see 2 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers ...

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 ...

As world leaders gather at COP28, the annual climate change negotiations held in Dubai this year, one number will be front and center: 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). That's the amount ...

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 ...

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.

Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels will require severely cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030. Doing so calls for the immediate, large-scale ...

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 ...