global temperature Archives

Human-caused climate change fuels hottest February on record, all-time high ocean warming

For the ninth straight month, Earth has obliterated global heat records — with February, the winter as a whole and the world’s oceans setting new high-temperature marks, according to the …

World needs to quicken energy transition or face warming of nearly 3 C by century’s end: UN

by Walter Watson

The world is on pace to warm by as much as 2.9 C by the end of the century, nearly double the international target agreed upon less than a decade …

report: Heat projected to kill nearly five times more people by 2050

by Ron Morgan

PARIS: Nearly five times more people will likely die due to extreme heat in the coming decades, an international team of experts warned on Wednesday, adding that without action on …