heatwave

Summer isn’t even half over, and we’ve seen heat waves in the Pacific Northwest and Canada with temperatures that would be hot for Death Valley, enormous fires that have sent smoke across North…

Death Valley is more than earning its morbid name this weekend, as temperatures in the California desert reached a near-record-breaking 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius), according to…

An extraordinary heatwave has swept the west coast of the US and Canada, leading to record temperatures, water shortages, and hundreds of deaths – and bringing home the catastrophic consequences of…

New normal. Record-breaking. Unprecedented. In recent days, as Western Canada and the United States have been broiling under a climate-fuelled heat crisis, all sorts of superlatives have been used…

The Tucson, Arizona-based non-profit group Humane Borders said Tuesday that amid the Southwest's extreme heatwave last month, an unusually large number of migrants' human remains were found in the…

Drought and deadly heatwaves fuel flames that threaten Native American tribal lands struggling to save water. Wildfires burning across the US west have engulfed nearly a million acres and drawn in…

The fires come as the West is blasted with its second, life-threatening heatwave in a matter of weeks. A wildfire is raging on the edge of one of America’s most iconic public lands, Yosemite…

The Independent was the first international news outlet to be allowed into the destroyed town of Lytton, British Columbia. Ashleigh Stewart joined residents seeing the extent of the destruction for…

It's hard not to think about how hot it's been — even if you live somewhere that has escaped the heat in the past few weeks. When British Columbia clocks temperatures of 121° F, it gets the world's…

It's "a frightening warning sign," said one observer. "Heartbreaking," another commented. "Can we now mobilize en masse to save all Earthly beings?" asked another.

Satellite data shows temperature peaks are lasting longer and rising higher North America endured the hottest June on record last month, according to satellite data that shows temperature peaks…

Rising temperatures may be hitting faster and harder than forecast, say climate scientists in wake of heatwave in US and Canada The world needs to step up preparations for extreme heat, which may be…

Governor Kate Brown fears heatwave is ‘harbinger of things to come’ in climate crisis The record-breaking heatwave that gripped the northwestern US and Canada has claimed more than 100 lives in the…

‘I stayed up all night watching the town burn down. It was so scary,’ says one Lytton resident. Nine foot high flames were lapping at Pierre Quevillon’s Lytton home when he bundled his two dogs into…

More deaths expected as details of victims continue to emerge. The death toll from a historic heatwave in the US northwest and Canada is expected to increase as temperatures reach 121F degrees, …

More people died of cold than heat in past 20 years but climate change is shifting the balance. More than 5 million people die each year globally because of excessively hot or cold conditions, a 20-…

Kevo in Lapland recorded a temperature of 33.6C after Finland registered record heat in June. Nordic countries have registered near-record temperatures over the weekend, including highs of 34C (93.…

Officials warn a ‘prolonged, dangerous, and historic heatwave’ will persist through the week. Canada has recorded its highest temperatures on record as the country’s west, along with the US Pacific …

Average temperatures for the month were 2C higher than normal, with 24 separate locations hitting their own records New Zealand has experienced its hottest June since records began more than 110…

Politicians are ‘role-playing’ and ‘pretending to wage war against fossil fuels’, activist says Greta Thunberg has torn into global leaders’ response to the worsening climate crisis, accusing them…