"Climate researchers are appealing to German politicians: the three-degree limit could be reached as early as 2050; accelerate climate adaptation." Press release by the German Physical Society and German Meterological Society (in German: www.dpg-physik.de/veroeffentli...)

The new "Planet Health 2025 Report" is out (www.planetaryhealthcheck.org). Only two out of seven indicators are in the green area, showing a positive development: stratospheric ozone depletion (ozone recovery) and atmospheric aerosols (clean-air policies).

Where are we located in our home galaxy Milky Way? See www.europlanet.org/wp-content/u.... The chances that another civilisation exists in our home galaxy is quite low. For this, we need a planet with the right amount of CO2 in the atmosphere (www.europlanet.org/epsc-dps2025...).

Here is a visualisation of the record high global temperature in 2024 since 1850. Each stripe is one year and blue and red colors mean temperatures below and above the 1961-2010 average, respectively. The very dark red stripe at the right end is 2024.

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Six different temperature records concur that 2024 was a record year, with a temperature 1.55 °C above the average for the 1850-1900 period.

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