Last year, Venezuela lost its last glacier. Neighboring Colombia also saw a glacier melt out of existence. Around the world, all 58 glaciers monitored by the American Meteorological Society lost mass during 2024.

Since observations began in 1970, only one other year saw every monitored glacier shrink: 2023. Now 2024 appears to have broken grim records for global temperatures and greenhouse concentrations set just the year before, according to the annual AMS climate assessment released Thursday.

“The annual global temperature across land and ocean was the highest recorded in the observational record,” said the 527-page State of the Climate report. “Anomalous warmth in 2024 occurred across most of the world and contributed to many of the continued changes in key climate indicators.”

• ICN

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