State of the climate: 2024 will be first year above 1.5C of global warming

This year is now virtually certain to beat 2023 as the hottest year on record. It will also be the first full year to surpass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels across the majority of observational records.

AI won the 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry

The prize honors innovation at Google DeepMind and in academia. Three researchers share the award for using machine learning to predict proteins' 3D shapes and design the molecules from scratch.

Nobel physics prize 2024 won by AI pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton won for discoveries that paved the way for the AI boom.

NASA Data Shows July 22 Was Earth's Hottest Day on Record

July 22, 2024, was the hottest day on record, according to a NASA analysis of global daily temperature data. July 21 and 23 of this year also exceeded the previous daily record, set in July 2023. 

Temperatures smash records 12 months in a row

May capped a full year of monthly record-breaking temperatures. Globally, rising heat is causing hundreds of deaths, disrupting education and displacing communities.

The Solar Storm Was So Intense We Felt It Even at The Bottom of The Ocean

A solar storm that filled Earth's skies with shimmering curtains of light in May 2024 was so intense that its effects were felt, even at the bottom of the ocean.

World Continues to Swelter as April 2024 Blazes Past Heat Records

April marked another "remarkable" month of record-breaking global air and sea surface temperature averages, according to a new report by the EU's climate monitor published on Wednesday.

March is tenth straight month to be hottest on record

Europe's climate monitor said Tuesday that March was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.

Wind energy in Europe: 2023 Statistics and the outlook for 2024-2030

Europe installed 18.3 GW of new wind power capacity in 2023. The EU-27 installed 16.2 GW of this, a record amount but only half of what it should be building to meet its 2030 climate and energy targets.

US scientists say one-in-three chance 2024 another year of record heat

This year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world's hottest on record.

February breaks temperature records for the 9th month in a row

Globally, December, January and February came in at 0.78C above average. But the last three months are part of a much bigger climate change picture.

In 2024, the Doomsday Clock remains at 90 seconds to midnight

Ii is the closest the Clock has ever been to midnight, reflecting the continued state of unprecedented danger the world faces.

Cloned monkeys: A breakthrough for gene technology?

Cloning primates is complicated. In most attempts, embryos and newborns die. But researchers in China have said they've cloned a rhesus monkey that's doing well.

A new supercomputer aims to closely mimic the human brain

A supercomputer scheduled to go online in April 2024 will rival the estimated rate of operations in the human brain, according to researchers in Australia. The machine, called DeepSouth, is capable of performing 228 trillion operations per second.