Without home cooling, Phoenix’s weeks with temperatures over 110 F in July 2023 became dangerous.
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Health and climate change researchers explain the risks and why older adults, even those in northern states, need to pay attention.
A man pours water on his head to cool off in Algiers, during a heat wave on 18 July 2023.
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Temperature records are being broken in Africa and around the world.
Blistering temperatures are spreading across southern and eastern Europe.
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Europe is gripped by a heatwave called Cerberus - it may be a sign of things to come.
Extreme heat can put lives at risk, making accurate forecasts essential for people working outdoors.
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Three economists looked at years of temperature and death data and calculated the costs when forecasts miss the mark.
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The 2021 Pacific Northwest heatwave outstripped even the most severe climate prections. A new study simulated 45,000 years of weather at Seattle Tacoma airport to try and figure out why.
People who work outdoors are at particular risk during heat waves.
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Tackling poverty can protect people from rising heat extremes in Britain and abroad.
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High temperatures are also a cause of illness and death for migrants.
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Humans prospered in a stable climate. But conditions are changing. Research out today shows 2 billion people will be pushed out of the habitable zone by 2.7C warming. Why? What does this mean for us?
Canary Wharf, London.
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Hot days are getting hotter in north-west Europe – and the region is poorly equipped to cope.
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Spring 2022’s record heat put most Indians at greater risk of a premature death.
Marine heat waves can reach the ocean floor as well as surface waters.
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El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate marine life.
Another homer off the bat of Aaron Judge.
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Scientists analyzed 100,000 baseball games, from the days of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays to Aaron Judge. Here’s what they learned about the climate’s growing role.
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Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
The carcass of a Grévy’s zebra, an endangered species which exists only in the northern part of Kenya, where drought is ongoing.
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Changing habitat ranges, competition for food and water, and biological effects of climate change all pose threats to wildlife.
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Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
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Air conditioners are rare in some European countries, but the climate crisis could change that.
Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people.
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That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
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Urban plantings are part of the solution to living in warmer cities, but most tree and shrub species in the world’s cities will struggle too. The impacts on liveability could be huge.
Pakistani women wade through floodwaters as they take refuge on Sep. 2, 2022.
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Climate change will increase the frequency of both floods and droughts in Pakistan. To address these challenges, enhancing infrastructure, building dams and educating the public are necessary.
As floods devastate Pakistan, Europe suffers from cycles of drought and flood that are hitting crops.
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The flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a sequence of exceptional disasters in the Northern Hemisphere. How much is climate change to blame?