Heat Waves
‘The New Normal’: Extreme Heat Imperils Millions Across Northern Hemisphere
"Getting off fossil fuels is the only way to stop this crisis from getting worse," said one campaigner.
By Kenny Stancil
Jul 17, 2023
Millions of people...
‘Just hell.’ 5 countries suffering in Europe’s heat wave
‘Unprecedented’ lethal weather starts to engulf European nations.
By Antoaneta Roussi and Eddy Wax
July 16, 2022
As Europe feels the heat, politicians are sweating.
In the...
‘Embarrassing’: Green Politician Blames Norway for Deadly Heat Wave in North...
by Igor Kuznetsov
Jul 7, 2021
Despite being heavily reliant on green energy for domestic use, Norway remains one of the world's leading exporters of energy...
Canada is a warning: more and more of the world will...
Without an immediate global effort to combat the climate emergency, the Earth’s uninhabitable areas will keep growing
Jun 30, 2021
Photograph: Kathryn
The climate crisis means that...
Hundreds dead throughout US Pacific Northwest, British Columbia in “once-in-a-millennium” heat...
Jul. 3, 2021
The ongoing heat wave across Western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest has been described as a “once-in-a-millennium” event, with temperatures in...
Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change
July 16, 2020
The World Weather Attribution project has released a study that confirms that what has been happening in Siberia can only be explained...
What is a heat dome?
Summertime means hot weather — sometimes dangerously hot — and extreme heat waves have become more frequent in recent decades. Sometimes, the scorching heat...
Germany sees temperature rise of record 41.9C in one week
Germany sees temperature rise of record 41.9C in one week
23 February 2021
Photo: DPA
One weekend the heart of winter, the next already spring: the German...
From Heat Waves to Hurricanes: What We Know About Extreme Weather...
By NADJA POPOVICH
SEPT. 15, 2017
It’s been a hectic end to summer, meteorologically speaking.
Back-to-back hurricanes raked Texas, Florida and the Caribbean. A Labor...
Climate change may make Middle East and North Africa uninhabitable
Rising sea levels, increasingly severe storms and deadly heat waves may imperil the region in coming decades, scientists and studies say
By Jacob Powell
Tuesday 27...