Earth reached its hottest year on record in 2024, according to the European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Service, the UK Met Office and Japan’s weather agency ...
The year 2024 was the first in which average global temperatures at the surface of the planet exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the majority of leading datasets.
More than 2,000 buildings destroyed and at least five people killed in “wildfires scorching communities across Los Angeles County”, and more climate news.
Despite coal-power output in the US falling to its lowest level in nearly 60 years, the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions fell by just 0.2% in 2024, according to new research from the Rhodium Group.
China is the world’s most populous nation and largest current emitter of greenhouse gases. How – and, crucially, when – this vast, complex nation fully decarbonises its surging economy is one of the ...