Global World News Global Warming Update Earth Briefly Surpasses Key Climate Threshold For First Time

CO2 levels reach record new high, locking in more global warming

Greenhouse gas concentrations increased by a record amount in 2024 as more carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide became locked in Earth's atmosphere, a World Meteorological Organization report ... Read More

Earth Is Getting Darker, Which Could Accelerate Global Warming

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from the hemisphere that has a surplus to the one that has a deficit,” Soden says ... Read More

Earth Passes First Climate Tipping Point, Scientists Warn Earth Faces 'New Reality'

Earth has entered a dangerous new phase of climate change as scientists warn that the planet has entered a "danger zone" where billions of people could face irreversible, deadly changes.Global Tipping ... Read More

Key climate tipping point is BREACHED - and scientists warn it will cause 'catastrophic harm'

A key climate tipping point has been irreversibly breached for the first time, a new report has warned. With global warming on track to climb past 1.5°C (2.7°F), scientists say that warm-water coral ... Read More

China's clean air could have caused the acceleration in global warming

Scientists have struggled to explain the rapid acceleration of global warming over the past 15 years, with temperatures now regularly breaking records. It is “among the biggest questions in climate ... Read More