"The cartoon is fantastic ... Andrea Dutton, a geochemist at the University of Florida, agrees. "One to 2 degrees Celsius sounds really small when you hear scientists talk about it," she says.

For the first time, the global average temperature on Friday last week was more than 2 degrees Celsius hotter than levels before industrialization, according to preliminary data shared on X by ...

Six months ahead of a landmark U.N. climate summit in Paris, the Group of Seven of the world’s largest advanced economies, or G7, reaffirmed their commitment Monday to keeping the globe’s ...

The 1.5 and 2 degrees C threshold refers to global mean temperature. For the past 10,000 years, the temperature of the planet as a whole has remained fairly steady, with minor fluctuations of ...