With climate change continuing to affect our planet and mitigating measures lagging, 2023 has been another eventful year for Earth. Broken records, unparalleled weather disasters and some concerning ...

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world's agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday. In ...

Low clouds matter most for albedo and sunlight reflection. They bounce a lot of sunlight back to space. Last year, low cloud ...

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

Editor's note: This report was published on Jan. 1. In early January, data was released further confirming that 2023 was Earth's hottest year on record. It's a moment scientists have warned about for ...

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