A sign directs people to a cooling center at the Mid-Valley Senior Citizen Center in Panorama City, during the recent heat wave across California and the West. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times) In a ...

Scientists on Thursday said the world surpassed a key warming threshold across an entire year for the first time on record. The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said the global ...

The year 2024 was the hottest on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming. All 10 of the hottest years have been in the past decade It’s official: 2024 is the hottest year on ...

It’s no secret that Americans have an independence streak. We don’t use the metric system. We insist on writing dates with the month before the day—something virtually no other country does. And we ...

The planet's carbon budget has nearly reached its limit, a new study has found. Earth is already on the brink of surpassing an internationally agreed-upon threshold for climate warming, relative to ...

The world may be on track to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming in about three years, a group of scientists warned in a new paper. Researchers have called for keeping the planet’s warming to ...

Cold weather conditions persisted in parts of Punjab and Haryana on Tuesday (January 20, 2026) with Amritsar reeling at a ...

In a troubling milestone, June marked Earth’s 12th consecutive month of global warming at or above 1.5 degrees Celsius — the internationally accepted threshold for avoiding the worst effects of ...