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 ...

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. Credit - Massimo ...

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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last year was the Earth’s second or third-hottest on record, several U.S. and global climate science organizations said. NASA ...

A flurry of crunching weather observations from around the globe confirmed that 2025 was another one of the warmest years in modern record, with staggering heat for millions, including residents of ...

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