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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?
Bad air pollution and extreme heat each raise health risks, but they’re worse combined.
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The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change. Wildfire smoke adds to the risk.
Parts of China suffered through a monthslong heat wave in summer 2022.
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The tropics are projected to face almost daily dangerous heat by 2100. And “extremely dangerous” heat that’s almost unheard of today will occur more often in several regions.
Southsea Common in Portsmouth, UK, parched after summer heat.
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Flash flooding often follows periods of drought.
The rising frequency and intensity of heat waves has been affecting people’s mental health by triggering various forms of emotional distress including eco-anxiety,
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A small number of people experience a debilitating level of eco-anxiety that limits their ability to live happy and healthy lives.
A member of the Coldstream Guards succumbs to the heat, June 2022.
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Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.
Could UK wildfires become more like those of southern Europe?
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Hotter, drier summers risk making widlfires more like those of southern Europe.
A runner tries to beat the heat by working out in the morning.
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The UK recorded blistering hot temperatures as the US and Europe also experienced sweltering heat waves.
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Summer heat may be far from people’s minds here in Australia. But Europe’s ordeal is yet another sign changes in Earth’s climate have already reached dangerous levels.
Many young athletes spend hours in the hot sun every day.
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Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.