Human activity helps make 2025 one of the hottest years on record
The increase in pollution from fossil fuels has substantially exacerbated climate change and made last year one of the warmest since records began.
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The increase in pollution from fossil fuels has substantially exacerbated climate change and made last year one of the warmest since records began.
Data show that 2025 ranked as the third warmest year in the instrumental record, underscoring ongoing global warming trends.

The planet's global temperature remains very high, and meteorological data show that last year was the third warmest on record, with 2023 and 2024 setting record highs.
The year 2025 was the third warmest on record and the third consecutive year in which temperatures remained above the 1.5°C limit, a European scientific centre said today.
The difference between the temperatures recorded in 2025 and 2024 (the warmest year on record) was minimal, confirming that the global warming trend continues, says a report from the European Copernicus programme
Copernicus data indicate that 2025 was the third-warmest year on record.

The world will shoot past the Paris climate agreement's lower target by 2030, data shows.
Thousands of glaciers have disappeared in recent decades and, as the world continues to warm, they are expected to vanish at an ever-increasing rate. A new study gives an idea of how quickly this could happen, and it's frightening.

An international study calculates the thermal energy the ocean absorbed last year: it is 37 times greater than the world’s total energy consumption in 2023.

Climate change, exacerbated by human behaviour, made 2025 one of the three warmest years on record, according to scientists.
