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Environment
Al Jazeera Staff

Month of May was world’s second-warmest on record: EU scientists

A child pours water to cool off on a hot summer day at a cattle market in Karachi, Pakistan on May 31, 2025 [Rizwan Tabassum/AFP]

This year, the world experienced its second-warmest month of May since records began, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has said in a monthly bulletin.

Global surface temperatures last month averaged 1.4 degrees Celsius (2.5 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in the 1850-1900 pre-industrial period, when humans began burning fossil fuels on an industrial scale, C3S said.

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