We are often reminded that 2024 was the hottest year on record and that 2023 was the second hottest. The World Meteorological Organization, NOAA, and Copernicus (the European Union equivalent to NOAA) ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s average temperature last year sizzled at a feverishly elevated level, a jump up from trends of recent decades, but not quite as record-smashing hot as 2024, several climate ...
Global average temperatures in 2025 were the third hottest on record, surpassed only by 2024 and 2023, according to an analysis published by Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit climate research organization.
2025 trailed only 2023, the warmest year on record, and 2024, the second-warmest, according to authoritative temperature data ...
2025 is on track to become the second–hottest year on record, scientists say – second only to 2024. The experts at Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) say the average temperature in the first 11 ...
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 ...
Oregon’s third-hottest year in records that date back to 1895. It continues a string of historically warm years.