8 hours ago In their own words: AP photographers explain how selected images capture warming world

Around the globe, Associated Press photographers in 2024 documented what scientists on Friday said was the hottest year on record, the latest in a long string of heat milestones that have been shattered in recent years as the burning of gas, coal and oil accelerate global warming.

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30 hours ago Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement | Bill McGuire and Roger Hallam

With 2024 set to go down as the hottest year on record, we know that what is coming is truly horrifyingThe past 12 months have seen our world enter new territory. Last year will go down as the first time that the global average temperature exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial times over a calendar year. We could crash permanently through the 1.5C guardrail within the next five years, and shatter the 2C limit as soon as 2034. This will almost certainly result in the tipping points for collapse of the Greenland and west Antarctic ice sheets being crossed, committing us to the drowning of coastal towns and cities.In years to come, we will look back at this time and ask the same question that future generations will ask: why didn’t we stop this catastrophe?Bill McGuire is professor emeritus of geophysical and climate hazards at UCL and author of Hothouse Earth: an Inhabitant’s GuideRoger Hallam is co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, Insulate Britain and Just Stop Oil Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Scots green groups call for climate action as 2024 named hottest year in record

Experts say last year was a 'watershed' year for the climate as the first to breach in full the 1.5C global warming limit.

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10 hours ago Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 as temperature passes 1.5C warning threshold

The last time the mercury got this high was back in 1850, according to the national forecaster

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11 hours ago Sunken worlds under the Pacific? Scientists are BAFFLED by massive structures found deep beneath the ocean that 'shouldn't exist'

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found massive structures deep beneath the Pacific waters that 'shouldn't exist'.

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13 hours ago Hottest year on record sent planet past key global warming limit of 1.5C for first time in 2024

‘This is a rude awakening to politicians to get their act together’

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19 hours ago Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold

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13 hours ago 2024 was hottest year on record and first to break 1.5C warming threshold, scientists warn

Climate datasets confirm highest recorded temperatures amid extreme weather – with worse to come

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