2024 was the first year to pass a milestone set by world leaders to try to keep the worst impacts of climate change at bay, scientists say.

Earth records its hottest year ever in 2024 and passes major climate threshold.

Last year's global average temperature easily passed 2023's record heat and kept going further, surpassing the long-term warming limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius.

BlackRock has become the latest financial firm to bail out of a big climate change industry group in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as US president and heightened regulatory scrutiny. The world’s largest money manager told institutional clients in a letter on Thursday that it had quit Net Zero Asset Managers,

BlackRock , the world's biggest asset manager, said on Thursday it will leave the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the latest Wall Street firm to depart an environmentally focused investor group under pressure from Republican politicians.

BlackRock is pulling out of a United Nations-sponsored climate initiative, a remarkable U-turn for a company that was once a poster child of the environmental, social and governance investing movement.