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Pacific north-west prepares for triple-digit temperatures just months after heat resulted in hundreds of deaths in region The Oregon governor declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as the region…

Spain and Portugal are bracing for temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in coming days, as a mass of hot, dry air from Africa pushes north into the Iberian peninsula.…

Prime minister says request made for help internationally as forest blazes erupt in Kabyle region and elsewhere More than 40 people, including 25 soldiers, have died in wildfires that erupted east…

It is the storied sea traversed by Odysseus and the Vikings, a body of water that has been the wellspring of civilisations, culture and commerce as well as countless myths and legends. It is the…

Emergency services are working hard to deal with destructive fires across Southern Europe which have been fuelled by strong winds and soaring heatwave temperatures. The blazes have been raging for…

Russia’s forest fires spread by a record margin on Monday, making the current wildfire season the country’s third-largest this century as smoke from the blazes wafts over huge expanses of Siberia,…

Last month was the worst July for wildfires across the world in at least 18 years, scientists have said. Parts of Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and Siberia caught on fire as a…

Latest updates as wildfires rage for fourth day Thousands of people in Greece have fled to safety from a wildfire burning for a fourth day north of Athens, amid the worst heatwave in the country for…

Today’s fast pace of global warming virtually guarantees more extreme temperature records around the world, according to a new study. Much of the US, Europe, and Asia will experience more deadly…

Leak of potent greenhouse gas is currently small but further research is urgently needed, say scientists The Siberian heatwave of 2020 led to new methane emissions from the permafrost, according to…

A succession of record-breaking natural disasters have swept the globe in recent weeks. There have been serious floods in China and western Europe, heatwaves and drought in North America and…

More than 40 fires are burning across Greece, write Marina Rigou in Athens and Nikolia Apostolou in Kalamata Thousands of people have been evacuated from Varibobi, a northeastern suburb of Athens,…

Temperatures in parts of Athens have reached 42C with Greek authorities saying it is the most intense heatwave in more than 30 years. A sweltering heatwave in Greece, the country’s worst in 30 years…

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…