In a troubling milestone, Earth surpasses 1.5 degrees C of warming for 12 consecutive months

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 climate change. Read More

Global Climate Goals in Crisis: 1.5°C Limit Now out of Reach, Stanford Researchers Warn

Artificial intelligence reveals new evidence indicating that rapid decarbonization alone will not prevent global warming from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius. The hottest years of this century are ... Read More

Why a two-year surge in global warmth is worrying scientists

As 2023 came to a close, scientists had hoped that a stretch of record heat that emerged across the planet might finally begin to subside this year. It seemed likely that temporary conditions, ... Read More

World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found. On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C ... Read More

Climate and Environment

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard ... Faced with a president-elect who has called global warming a “scam,” activists are changing ... Read More

Has the world abandoned the 1.5C global warming threshold?

This year is now almost certain to be not only the warmest in human history, but also the first to breach the 1.5C global warming ... the climate. The 1.5C threshold is seen as a key point beyond ... Read More

World's first year-long breach of key 1.5C warming limit

For the first time, global ... much warming the world experiences, based on our choices as a society, and as a planet," says Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist at US group Berkeley Earth. Read More