FILE PHOTO: Volunteers continue cleaning up, following the deadly October 29 floods in Paiporta, Valencia, Spain, November 16, 2024. REUTERS/Vincent West/File Photo
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - 2024 was the hottest year on record, the World Meteorological Organization said on Friday, and the first in which temperatures exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial times - a threshold that may lead to more severe climate disasters.
The latest bleak assessment of the state of climate change comes as the death toll from wildfires raging in California climbs at the start of the new year.
