New Delhi, June 24 -- Asia, the largest continent in the world with around 60 per cent of the global population, is now warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, according to a report released on Monday.
The sea surface in Asia is also warming at nearly double the global average over the past decades, said the World Meteorological Organisation's "State of the Climate in Asia in 2024" report.
"In the two most recent subperiods (1961-1990 and 1991-2024), Asia, the continent with the largest land mass, extending to the Arctic, has warmed faster than the global land and ocean average," the report said.
In 2024, the average temperature in Asia was about 1.04 degrees Celsius above the 1991-2020 average, making it either the warmest o...