As Carlo Buontempo (Rome, 52 years old), director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service — the European Union’s Earth observation program — points out, the main bodies that monitor the world’s ...

Last year’s global average temperature easily passed 2023′s record heat and kept pushing even higher. It surpassed the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since the ...