Since the start of the Industrial Revolution, global consumption of fossil fuels, like oil and coal, has surged, resulting in a rapid build up of heat-trapping emissions in the Earth's atmosphere.

These maps reveal how climate change influences daily local weather, ocean temperatures, and tropical cyclones. Climate Shift Index: Tropical Cyclone Find out how climate change has shaped past and ...

Global average temperatures in 2025 were the third hottest on record, surpassed only by 2024 and 2023, according to an analysis published by Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit climate research organization.

Over the past century, the Earth’s average temperature has swiftly increased by about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit). The evidence is hard to dispute. It comes from thermometers and other ...

An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before 2030, a new study suggests. The paper, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that, ...

As the climate warms, the observations show that the natural global cooling and warming effects of La Nina and El Nino are now overlaid on a much warmer background than in the recent past with La Nina ...

2025 ranked as one of the top three hottest years ever recorded, scientists say, with temperatures statistically tied for the hottest on record when considering the narrow margins with 2024 and 2023.

A two-year, side-by-side measurement comparison at Reno-Tahoe International Airport demonstrates that due to station siting and localized Urban Heat Island (UHI) effects a persistent warm bias of ...