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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Children cool off in the mist along the Las Vegas Strip during extreme heat, as global temperatures continue to rise worldwide.

Global heat records are no longer abstract charts; they are reshaping daily life in Texas. With 2025 ranking as the planet’s ...

Global heat records are no longer rare spikes, they are becoming the new baseline. As La Niña fades and the Pacific tilts ...

First, the good news: 2025 was not the hottest year on record. Now the bad news: last year was the third hottest on record, just a hair behind 2023. More importantly, it caps three years when global ...

The planet logged its third hottest year on record in 2025, extending a run of unprecedented heat, with no relief expected in 2026, global climate monitors said Wednesday. The last 11 years have now ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year was the third-warmest in modern history, according to Copernicus, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service. The conclusion came as no surprise: The past 11 years have been the ...