2024 has been designated as the hottest year on record, and for the first time, passing the stated “point of no return” for irreversible climate change.

Meteorological associations have reported 2024 as the hottest year on record since humans started keeping track. Scientists say this likely puts Earth at greater risk of more extreme heat waves, hurricanes and significant loss of biodiversity.

Earth recorded its hottest year on record in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, weather monitoring agencies announced Friday.

Earth experienced its hottest year on record, surpassing previous highs with an average temperature 1.28 degrees Celsius above the 20th-century norm. This historical peak is a stark reminder of the urgent need to understand and mitigate our impact on the planet,

Last year was Brazil's hottest on record, its weather agency said Friday, after a record-breaking drought and flooding in the South American country that climate experts have linked to global warming.

Lubbock saw its hottest year ever recorded in 2024, beating a record set 90 years ago. One meteorologist says the city's growth plays a role.

The official numbers are in, and 2024 was the hottest year in recorded history—and almost surely also the hottest year in the history of human civilization. The meme in which Homer Simpson explains to Bart that what he’s experiencing is the coldest weather of the rest of his life feels apt here.