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…
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…
Less than a week after a deadly “heat dome” devastated western Canada and the U.S. Pacific Northwest and burned Lytton, B.C. to the ground, an international science team is reporting that the…
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…
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.…
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…
Canada has recorded its highest ever temperature as the country's west and the US Pacific north-west frazzle in an unprecedented heatwave.
Lytton in British Columbia soared to 46.6C (116F) on Sunday…
Seattle and Portland set record temperatures on Saturday as a dome of extremely hot air settled over the US Pacific Northwest.
All of Washington and Oregon, and parts of Idaho, Wyoming and…
On the same day last year, air temperatures in the area blazed past 100 degrees F for the first time in recorded history.
On the summer solstice (June 20 — the longest day of the year) two European…
Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern history to launch temperatures into the triple digits,…
Hot weather bakes in disadvantage. Regenerating natural and living ecosystems will help us all
Acentury ago the British critic and crime writer GK Chesterton declared that crime fiction is the…
Microscopic organisms known as extremophiles inhabit some of the last places on Earth you might expect to find life, from the extreme pressures of the ocean floor to freezing ice caps. Understanding…
A new comparison of measurements finds that some don't add up.
The global warming that has already taken place may be even worse than we thought. That's the takeaway from a new study that finds…
Jane Gilbert urges greater federal and state response to lethal threat posed by rising temperatures.
Miami’s new chief heat officer has called for greater federal and state action on the lethal…
There is more than a 40% chance that the annual average global temperature in at least one of the next five years will temporarily reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
And these odds are…
Anyone who listens to weather reports has heard meteorologists comment that yesterday’s temperature was 3 degrees above normal, or last month was much drier than normal. But what does “normal” mean…
Describing hotter temperatures and altered weather as the "new normal" under climate change has become cliché, and updated NOAA data makes it official.
The U.S. is now hotter than it was just a…
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