This summer, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change unveiled a new report forecasting dire consequences if the planet warms above a threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Kate ...

Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the Holocene, the average global temperature was roughly 6 degrees Centigrade lower than the average temperature from then to ...

Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time on record. The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global ...

Early forecasts suggest the El Nino climate phenomenon could return later this year, potentially paving the way for global temperatures to exceed the critical 1.5 degrees Celsius threshold for the ...

In a troubling milestone, 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 ...

The planet could see 2 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade. Earth may have already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming and could be soon heading for 2 degrees of warming, researchers ...

The alarm bells are loud and clear. Federal and international climate officials recently confirmed that 2023 was the planet’s hottest year on record — and that 2024 may be even hotter. With a global ...

The mean global temperature briefly crossed a critical threshold of 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels likely for the first time on Friday, highlighting unprecedented global warming that ...

The planet's carbon budget has nearly reached its limit, a new study has found. Earth is already on the brink of surpassing an internationally agreed-upon threshold for climate warming, relative to ...

Consider that 3 degrees Fahrenheit is the difference between a raging fever and a healthy toddler. Between a hockey rink and a swimming pool. Between food going bad or staying at a safe temperature.

BENGALURU: Karnataka could experience a severe summer this year, with temperatures going up by nearly 3 degrees Celsius more ...