The Latest Breaking News from Copernicus

Last month was the hottest January on record, according to Europe's climate monitor, despite predictions that the La Nina weather pattern could break last year’s streak of record-breaking temperatures.

Last month was the hottest January on record, Europe's climate monitor said Thursday, despite expectations that cooler La Nina conditions might quell a streak of record-breaking global temperatures.

The European climate service Copernicus says the world warmed to yet another monthly heat record in January, despite an abnormally chilly United States, a cooling La Nina and predictions of a slightly less hot year

Unusual warmth in Russia during January attributed to global warming, breaking temperature records. Impacting daily life.

Most researchers report the global temperature last year was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average.

The earth’s climate experienced its hottest year in 2024. Extreme flooding in April killed hundreds of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A year-long drought has left Amazon river levels at an all-time low. And in Athens, Greece, the ancient Acropolis was closed in the afternoons to protect tourists from dangerous…

The last two years exceeded on average a critical warming limit for the first time as global temperatures soar "beyond what modern humans have ever experienced", an EU agency said Friday.

The year 2024 was the world’s warmest on record globally, and the first calendar year in which global temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial levels.

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

This year is on track to become the hottest year on record, with global temperatures expected to exceed the1.5 degrees Celsius above benchmark set by the Paris Agreement.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service says this year is sure to eclipse 2023 as the hottest yet.