The average surface air temperature was 55.81 degrees Fahrenheit That's 1.42 degrees Fahrenheit above the 1991-2020 average ...

Three recent studies reveal how the interplay between El Niño and long-term global warming drove the record-breaking global ...

And, in the majority of datasets in 2024, global surface temperatures exceeded 1.5C for the first time. (In the Berkeley Earth dataset, 2023 was actually the first year above 1.5C.) Global temperature ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

“Resolving the physical, thermal, and chemical properties of rocks ~3000 km (1,864 miles) below our feet, at extreme temperatures ... Earth’s surface, said Richardson, the doctoral candidate ...

Many people envision Earth ... temperature, density, or composition — they change speed, direction, or type. By measuring these changes at seismic stations on the surface, scientists can map ...

However, a team of geophysicists from ETH Zurich has discovered anomalies. These zones, where seismic waves behave differently, suggest the presence of materials with unusual temperature ... analyze ...

Last year was Earth's warmest on record ... clear why 2024 was so hot and what it portends. Map showing surface air temperature anomalies in 2024 compared to 1991-2020 average.

In addition to the Ocean CSI data, the online tool also provides maps for sea surface temperatures and temperature anomalies ... the vast majority of the Earth’s excess warming (more than ...

Data from NOAA, Berkeley Earth ... temperature anomalies for 2024 (how much higher or lower temperatures were on a regional scale than the average temperature from 1991-2020) is shown on this map.