2025 third hottest year on record

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The planet experienced its third-warmest year on record in 2025, and average temperatures have exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming over three years, the longest period since records began, EU scientists have said. The data from the European Union's European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) found on Wednesday that the last three years were the planet's three hottest since records