Although 2025 did not set a new global temperature record, it still delivered clear signs of a warming planet.

For the first time, the three-year average global temperature was more than 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temps.

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

The year 2025 was the warmest on record for the heat content of the world’s oceans. Ocean heat content (OHC) increased by around 500 zettajoules – billion trillion joules – since the 1940s.

Last year was the third-warmest in modern history, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service.

A 60-million year old fossil palm leaf from Alaska. A new study by researchers including Isabel Montañez at UC Davis has produced the most accurate chart to date of how Earth's temperature has changed ...

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A global team of scientists reports that Earth’s oceans absorbed more heat in 2025 than in any year since modern observations ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.