People hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun during an ongoing heat wave with temperatures reaching 40 degrees, in Rome, Italy, on July 6, 2025, at the Colosseo area. People hold umbrellas ...

By Shanna Hanbury 2025 was the third-warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The warmest year on record is still 2024, with 2023 coming in second. The global ...

In a time when temperatures appear to be breaking past records every other month, January 2026 is only the fifth warmest January month on record.

2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...

The main driver is straightforward. Greenhouse gases keep building up in the atmosphere, trapping more heat. That raises the planet’s baseline temperature, so even years without a strong natural boost ...

Last year was the Earth’s second or third-hottest on record, several U.S. and global climate science organizations said. NASA found that 2025 was the second-hottest year, though the numbers were so ...

New climate data shows that 2025 was the fifth warmest year ever recorded in the western Pacific, continuing a long-term ...