In 2023 and 2024, Earth's average global surface temperature spiked nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius above what was already expected from climate change. Each year was declared the hottest on record and ...

While 2023 is noted for breaking global temperature records (State of the Global Climate 2023), the year also brought an unexpected twist with extreme cold events in Antarctica. A new study published ...

An extreme summer marked by deadly heat waves, explosive wildfires and record warm ocean temperatures will go down as among the hottest in the last 2,000 years, new research has found. The summer of ...

A digital billboard in Phoenix updates the time and temperature during a heat wave in July 2023. (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press) An extreme summer marked by deadly heat waves, explosive ...