Tag: Extreme Heat

The media reporting around heatwaves that have hammered the northern hemisphere has been unequivocal: the simultaneous record-breaking heat has "pushed the ...

In the blink of an eye, the mercury soared to unimaginable heights, making headlines and turning weather records to ashes.  ...

Heat waves and high temperatures are becoming more common globally, and it's predicted that new record temperatures may be reached ...

Climate change, the destruction of biodiversity, and the overall alteration of the environment constitute a major threat to the physical and mental health of ...

Droughts affect nearly 55 million people globally every year. This year, they have affected the whole of Europe. Since early ...

Over the last two decades, a field of climate-science research known as “extreme event attribution” has flourished providing bewildering insights ...

This story originally appeared on Yale Climate Connections and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening ...

As extreme heat claims more and more lives, Freetown, Sierra Leone, has appointed Africa’s first Chief Heat Officer, Eugenia Kargbo. ...

Over the past five days, British Columbia, a province in Canada, faced an almost three-fold increase in the number of ...