For the second year in a row, summer in the Northern Hemisphere ranked as the warmest on record with extreme heat bringing persistent, dangerously hot conditions.

August was Earth's warmest on record, continuing a year-plus stretch of monthly heat marks, making 2024 likely to be the planet's hottest, according to just-released data. August record, by a nose: In a report released Thursday,

Was World's Hottest on Record, EU Climate Change Monitor Says By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The world is emerging from its warmest northern hemisphere summer since records began, the European Union's climate change monitoring service said on Friday,