The five hottest years on record, ranked by their departure from the 20th-century average temperature. Courtesy of NOAA NCEI, Barbara Ambrose

Can We Take the Heat?

An unusually warm April is recorded in an unusually warm year in an unusually warm decade

April 2020 joined February and March as the second warmest globally on record for each month, following a January that was the hottest in 141 years of record-keeping, amid a string of five straight years of record global warmth. Meanwhile, a new study finds that unlivable…