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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Arizona's iconic saguaro cacti are falling over and dying thanks to extreme heat in the state. </li><li>The plants, although adapted to hot temperatures, rely on summer monsoon rains that haven't come. </li></ul>In Arizona, even resilient cacti are falling over and dying thanks to the blistering heat that has taken hold of the state for the better part of the last month.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/saguaro-cacti-collapsing-arizona-extreme-heat-scientist-says-2023-07-25/">Reuters reported on Tuesday</a> that the iconic saguaro cacti are leaning, losing limbs, and even falling over with the summer monsoon rains just not coming.Tania Hernandez, a research scientist at Phoenix's Desert Botanical Garden, told the outlet that the plants are usually fine in Arizona's traditionally high summer temperatures but Phoenix is in the middle of an unprecedented heatwave.Reuters reported that the city saw temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit for 25 days in a row.But not all the cacti will die immediately, Hernandez told Reuters.The saguaros need to cool down every night from rain or mist, Hernandez explained, adding that if the rain does not come, the plants will have internal damage.Cacti that suffer from prolonged heat, like what's being seen in Arizona right now, could take months or even years to die, Reuters reported.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/27/us/phoenix-arizona-heat-saguaro-cactuses/index.html">Kimberlie McCue, the Chief Science Officer at the Desert Botanical Garden, told CNN</a> that the cacti have been "highly stressed" due to the weather.McCue — who, along with her team, assesses the Botanical Garden's cacti each February — told CNN that she has been seeing more death among the Arizona saguaro cacti since 2020 when record highs caused the plants to undergo stress.Those cacti that had already been stressed out due to high temps are being hit even harder, causing them to lose their limbs or even collapse.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.nps.gov/sagu/learn/nature/how-saguaros-grow.htm#:~:text=An%20adult%20saguaro%20is%20generally,may%20live%20over%20200%20years.">According to the National Parks Service</a>, saguaro cacti are supposed to live anywhere from 150 to 175 years long. Some plants may even live to be over 200.

Saguaro cacti typically live 150 to 175 years, but Arizona's heatwave is making them topple over and die 

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Video shows an Amazon delivery driver was filmed taking a dip in a customer's pool after delivering a package, per <a href="https://viralhog.com/v?t=e42m5dbb7k&amp;&amp;page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Viralhog</a>.</li><li>The customer had left a note saying, "If you want to go for a swim, you are welcome to."</li></ul>It's been so scorching hot in California that one Amazon delivery driver took a splashy dive into a customer's pool, fully clothed.According to a video <a href="https://viralhog.com/v?t=e42m5dbb7k&amp;&amp;page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared on Viralhog on Sunday</a>, an Amazon driver appears to plunge headfirst into a pool after making a delivery — cap, shoes, and all. The video was captured by the homeowner's CCTV in Gardena, California on June 30, according to Viralhog.Wearing a black Amazon vest and shorts, the video shows the driver dropping off a package and putting his phone on a table before diving into the pool. Post-swim, the driver appears to nonchalantly walk back to his vehicle. However, this wasn't a swim on a whim — according to Viralhog, the customer had left a note in the delivery instructions saying: "If you want to go for a swim, you are welcome to," per Viralhog.Temperatures in Gardena, California, soared to highs of 70 to 74 degrees Fahrenheit in June, per <a href="https://weatherspark.com/m/1627/6/Average-Weather-in-June-in-Gardena-California-United-States" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Weather Spark</a>. The escalating heat is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heat-wave-puts-small-businesses-under-pressure-temperatures-bills-soar-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking a toll on businesses in California, Arizona, and Texas</a>, Insider previously reported. And even as temperatures rose to 130 degrees Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California — the hottest place on earth — <a href="https://www.insider.com/tourists-visit-death-valley-during-dangerous-heatwave-2023-7">tourists continued to visit the site in droves</a>. A man died on July 18 after <a href="https://www.insider.com/elderly-hiker-died-in-californias-death-valley-after-heatwave-warning-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">collapsing at the end of a hike</a> in Death Valley, Insider reported.And this heatwave isn't just confined to the US. Record-breaking temperatures have been noted globally, with the hottest day in recorded history <a href="https://www.insider.com/summer-2023-heat-wave-tracker-temperature-records-2023-5">falling on July 3</a>, Insider reported. Climate scientists warned last July that the climate crisis could <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heat-waves-are-dominating-summer-and-its-not-abnormal-anymore-2022-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">make heatwaves more common and persistent</a>.Extreme heat puts immense stress on our bodies, which struggle to regulate temperature at around 104 degrees, according to <a href="https://www.insider.com/climate-change-rising-temperatures-test-human-limits-2023-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a recent study from the University of Roehampton</a>.Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider sent outside regular business hours.

The heatwave in California has gotten so bad that an Amazon delivery driver jumped into a customer's pool, fully clothed

<ul class="summary-list"><li>An unusually high number of <keyword id="64839" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Migrants">migrants</keyword> have been found dead at the US-Mexico border this summer.</li><li>The remains of 43 people were discovered along <keyword id="57493" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Arizona">Arizona</keyword>'s border last month, Humane Borders said.</li><li>Blistering heat waves across the country's coasts made last month the US's hottest June on record.</li></ul>An exceptionally high number of people believed to be migrants have been found dead this summer at the US-Mexico border amid an intense heat wave that's been broiling the Southwest.The remains of 43 people were discovered along Arizona's border region last month, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/arizona-1300cd229c566188f912232edadc1dea">the Associated Press reported</a>, citing the nonprofit organization Humane Borders, which tracks the recoveries of bodies in the Grand Canyon State with data from the Pima County medical examiner's office.Blistering heat waves across the West Coast and the East Coast made last month the hottest June on record for the US, <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news/june-2021-was-hottest-june-on-record-for-us">the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration</a> reported.Arizona was among eight states in the nation that saw their hottest June on record, the agency said.Mike Kreyche, Humane Borders' mapping coordinator, told the Associated Press that not all 43 of those who were found dead died in June.At least 16 of them had been dead for a day, while another 13 of them had been dead for less than a week at the time they were discovered, Kreyche said.The death figures by Humane Borders are more than the number of <keyword id="6419711" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Deaths">deaths</keyword> reported by the US Border Patrol, the Associated Press reported. The AP added that the Border Patrol only counts the bodies it handles in the course of its work.The number of human remains found so far this year at the US-Mexico border has already outpaced the number of bodies discovered during the same period last year, with 127 found in 2021 compared to last year's 96, Kreyche said.The most commonly listed cause of death among those found is exposure, the Associated Press reported.There has also been an uptick in migrant deaths in <keyword id="15710" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="texas">Texas</keyword> this year, the <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> outlet said.

43 bodies have been found near the US-Mexico border in Arizona as a heat wave grips the area

Summer has arrived early this year. The <a href="https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2022/apr/03/climate-maximum-india-sees-its-hottest-march-in-122-years-2437271.html#:~:text=The%20average%20maximum%20temperature%20of,temperature%20of%2033.09%20degrees%20Celsius.">hottest March</a> in 122 years was followed by even more <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/environment/news/heatwave-in-india-what-is-wet-bulb-temperature-why-is-it-important-and-how-to-measure-it/articleshow/91306156.cms">intense heat waves</a> in <keyword id="6364510" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="April" source="Orion">April</keyword>. As per the India Meteorological Department, April was the <a href="https://internal.imd.gov.in/press_release/20220402_pr_1551.pdf">hottest </a>month for northwest and central India and the third-hottest April the country has seen over the past 122 years, from 1901 to 2022. This April, which left more than a billion people sweltering, was not ‘just another hot month.’ It indicates a recurring pattern of intense hot spells, which could be a sign of climate change and global warming. <div type="image" title="Summer has arrived early this year" msid="91355355" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Summer has arrived early this year&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Could these intense and recurring heat waves be a sign of climate change? The number of heat wave days in India in a decade has increased from 413 during 1981-90 to 575 in 2001-10 and further to 600 in 2010-20, a <a href="https://theprint.in/environment/indias-early-heatwave-sign-of-climate-change-could-be-more-dangerous-to-health-say-experts/933706/">study </a>by IMD and Kottayam-based Institute for Climate Change Studies (ICCS) said, highlighting the impact of climate crisis on the maximum temperatures. In fact, 12 of the country’s 15 <a href="https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1686173">warmest years</a> on record have occurred in the last 30 years. The daily high temperatures measured each year have also been increasing at a faster rate than daily low temperatures. This indicates that the distribution of temperature is shifting and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/02/india-heat-wave-in-pictures.html">changing </a>the ‘normal’ state. <div type="image" title="12 of India&amp;#39;s 15 warmest years on record have occurred in the last 30 years" msid="91355411" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;12 of India&amp;#39;s 15 warmest years on record have occurred in the last 30 years&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The heat wave is also taking lives. The 2015 <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/85986/india-faces-deadly-heat-wave">heat wave</a> in June killed more than 2,500 people and the 2022 heat wave in March and April has already taken 25 lives in <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/25-heat-stroke-deaths-in-maha-most-in-6-yrs/articleshow/91243493.cms">Maharashtra</a>, which is the highest in six years, and over 374 cases of heat stroke have been reported in this period. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/04/29/climate-change-india-heatwave/9583931002/">Experts</a> predict that before climate change, such intensity of heat would have only been seen about once in every 50 years in India. However, it is now <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2022/04/29/climate-change-india-heatwave/9583931002/">expected</a> to occur once every four years. Is the worst yet to come? Let’s take a closer look at the heat patterns in April. On April 27, 2022, the highest temperature in the country, 45.9°C (114.6°F), was recorded in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. Barmer in West Rajasthan in the northwest reported a high of 45.1°C (113.2°F) a day before, according to the <a href="https://mausam.imd.gov.in/Forecast/marquee_data/Press%20Release%2027.04.2022%20_1.pdf">India Meteorological Department</a>. Many other cities and towns recorded temperatures of 42-44°C (108-111°F). <div type="image" title="Northwest and central India recorded the third-hottest April the country has seen over the past 122 years" msid="91355531" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Northwest and central India recorded the third-hottest April the country has seen over the past 122 years &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> These patterns could change in the future. So, is the worst yet to come? As per India’s Ministry of Earth Sciences, the frequency of warm extremes over India has increased during 1951–2015, with accelerated warming trends during the recent 30-year period. Significant change is observed for the warmest day, warmest night and coldest night since 1986. Our country, which is reeling through a heat wave right now, is also expected to suffer through more frequent and intense hot spells, extreme rainfall and erratic monsoons in the coming decades as the planet warms, said <a href="https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/india-s-record-heatwave-to-get-worse-authorities-blame-global-warming-122042900785_1.html">United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel</a>, a body for assessing the science related to climate change. On the other hand, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) released a statement that said “it is premature to attribute the extreme heat in India and Pakistan solely to climate change.” The global body added that the heat is consistent with what it expects in a changing climate. The WMO also noted that these “heat waves are more frequent and more intense and starting earlier than in the past.” Cascading impacts of a heat wave The summer in India has been brutal in the past couple of years, with heat wave deaths occurring with more regularity, especially in heat wave-prone regions of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra and Odisha. It also has led to cascading impacts not just on human health, but also on ecosystems such as agriculture, water and energy supplies. Power demand has spiked and coal inventories have dropped, leaving the country with its worst <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/why-are-there-power-cuts-and-heatwave-in-india/articleshow/91177785.cms">power shortage</a> in more than six years. Additionally, in the last seven days, India’s Forest Survey department (FSI) has reported more than<a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/in-depth/how-frequent-forest-fires-impact-humans-animals-and-environment-equally/videoshow/91294425.cms"> 7800 forest fires </a>in various parts of the country. <div type="image" title="Large forest fires have increased in India due to rising temperatures" msid="91355581" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Large forest fires have increased in India due to rising temperatures&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The heat wave has also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/after-five-record-crops-heat-wave-threatens-indias-wheat-output-export-plans-2022-05-02/">threatened</a> India’s wheat output plan. However, there’s still hope to <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/2022/04/04/ipcc-ar6-wgiii-pressrelease/">control</a> climate change. It will involve a substantial reduction in fossil fuel use, widespread electrification, improved energy efficiency, and use of alternative fuels (such as hydrogen). The ongoing <keyword id="6371478" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="heatwave" source="Orion">heatwave</keyword> in India has brought the wet bulb temperature concept into mainstream conversation. Here's a short video on why wet bulb temperature is important. <div type="image" title="What is the wet bulb temperature? Click on the image for the full video" msid="91355692" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;What is the wet bulb temperature? Click on the image for the full video&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Before we let you go, here’s an important announcement- Business Insider India brings you SaaS Scions, a 6-part video series chronicling Indian SaaS scions - SaaS leaders who have come to define this sector in India. And now for the world. Over the course of this season, the series will capture the thinking and vision of these icons and highlight the potential for the sector in the decades to come. Here’s the registration link - <a href="https://saasscions.com/">https://saasscions.com/</a>

SIMPLY PUT: Why April was more than 'just another hot month'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 12-year-old boy died last week after his gym teacher told him to run in triple-digit temperatures.</li><li>While Yahshua Robinson's cause of death is unknown, his family says the heat was partly to blame.</li></ul>A 12-year-old boy in southern California has died after his gym teacher told him to run in triple-digit heat.Yahshua Robinson, a middle school student from Lake Elsinore, California, arrived to his gym class on Tuesday in the wrong clothes, Amarna Plummer, Robinson's aunt, <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/lake-elsinore-middle-school-student-death-run-heat/3216265/">told NBC Los Angeles.</a> In response, Robinson's gym teacher made him run outdoors during high temperatures, Plummer said, describing what Robinson's fellow students had relayed to her."He was reaching out to the teacher, saying he needed some water. He said he couldn't breathe. He was telling the kids this," Plummer told the outlet.The <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-31/he-wasnt-dressed-for-gym-so-was-told-to-run-family-says-boy-died-amid-triple-digit-heat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LA Times reported</a> that the Lake Elsinore United School District has confirmed Robinson's death."In this difficult moment, we are deeply saddened to confirm the passing of one of our students due to a medical emergency on one of our LEUSD campuses," the district said in a statement. "Our hearts are with the family, friends, and our school community."After Robinson collapsed, he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died of cardiac arrest, Plummer wrote on a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/yahshua-yaya-robinson?fbclid=IwAR1K9wQ8AC5om9NGZnIXTcHYNDcMa6LqhcFLdl5gUuPmNqIOmamRdBQSLAg">GoFundMe page</a> set up for Robinson's family.A spokesperson with the Riverside County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Insider that police and fire officials arrived at the middle school Tuesday morning for "juvenile medical aid.""The juvenile was transported to a local hospital and later pronounced deceased," the spokesperson wrote to Insider. "This is an ongoing investigation, and the cause of death is still pending."While police have yet to confirm Robinson's cause of death, Plummer said his family believes the "sweltering heat" was partly to blame. The high temperature for Lake Elsinore that day was 107 degrees Fahrenheit, according to <a href="https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=sgx">the National Weather Service.</a>

A 12-year-old in southern California died after his gym teacher told him to run during a triple-digit heatwave, his family says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A temperature of 104°F was provisionally recorded Tuesday in the <keyword id="11897975" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="uk" source="Orion">UK</keyword>, the highest ever. </li><li><keyword id="11897120" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="europe" source="Orion">Europe</keyword>'s record-breaking <keyword id="11930977" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="heat" source="Orion">heat</keyword> wave has caused raging wildfires and deaths.</li></ul>The UK has provisionally recorded its highest ever temperature on Tuesday: 102.4°F (40.2°C).It was the first time the UK recorded a temperature over 102°F (40°C) <a href="https://twitter.com/metoffice/status/1549362223889481733?s=20&amp;t=-dunTsSjOIuU_8zI2ZovWw">per the Met Office</a>, the official weather organization in Britain.The reading was taken around London's Heathrow Airport just before 1 p.m. local time. Temperatures were forecast to rise further still through Tuesday afternoon.The previous <keyword id="11942832" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="record" source="Orion">record</keyword> was 101.6°F (38.7°C), from 2019. It was beaten Tuesday by a slew of readings in southern England over the 100-degree mark.The record came on the second day of <keyword id="14497848" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="extreme" source="Orion">extreme</keyword> heat, and followed the hottest-ever night in Britain.The UK's Met Office said Monday night was the hottest ever night recorded in the UK. It cited a minimum temperature of 78.4°F (25.8°C) in Kenly on the outskirts of London, though warned the reading may later be revised."This unprecedented red warning for extreme heat is a wake-up call about the climate emergency," Prof Hannah Cloke, natural hazards researcher at the University of Reading, said in a Monday statement to the UK's <keyword id="11896083" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="science" source="Orion">Science</keyword> Media Center. "Even as a climate scientist who studies this stuff, this is scary. This feels real," she said. The current heat wave was caused by hot air heading north from Africa, where it broke a slew of local heat records in European countries like France and Spain, and sparked a wave of devastating wildfires.Zamora, Spain, registered a record 107.2°F (41.8°C) on Thursday, while two weather stations in Nîmes, France, recorded 104°F (40°C), the highest record for the city in July, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/07/15/heat-wave-europe-uk-warning/">per The Washington Post.</a><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/heatwave-peaks-at-record-temperature-of-33c-in-dublin-qkbfmmrqm">On Monday, Ireland measured 91.4°F (33°C) in Dublin, the highest since an 1887 record of 91.94°F (33.3</a><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/heatwave-peaks-at-record-temperature-of-33c-in-dublin-qkbfmmrqm">°C</a><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/heatwave-peaks-at-record-temperature-of-33c-in-dublin-qkbfmmrqm">). </a><div type="image" title="Dark smoke is shown floating over a sunny beach in Teste-de-Buch forest rises from the Dune of Pilat in the background, in the Arcachon basin southwest France, on July 13, 2022" height="1128" width="1504" msid="92981688" hostid="261"></div>According to the <a href="https://momo.isciii.es/panel_momo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Carlos III Institute, </a>there were 510 heat-related deaths in Spain from July 10 to July 16. There were 659 heat-related deaths were recorded in Portugal over the week of July 11, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/">per Reuters.</a><div type="image" title="Neighbors collaborate in the work of extinction in a forest fire, on 17 July, 2022 seen from Sant Fruitos del Bages, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain." height="1334" width="1778" msid="92981692" hostid="261"></div>At least 16,000 people were evacuated in Gironde, France, because of large wildfires that have burnt over 32,000 acres of land, <a href="https://www.gironde.gouv.fr/Actualites/Communique-de-presse2/Incendies-en-cours-en-Gironde-point-le-18-juillet-a-10h30">per the region's press office. </a>The UK is not built for extreme heat, George Havenith, Professor of Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics of Loughborough University, recently told Insider. "The heat could be extremely damaging in countries that have not been historically hit by high temperatures.""People here are not really trained to deal with the heat as somebody from a Southern country would."<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/15/rail-passengers-urged-to-avoid-train-travel-in-extreme-uk-heatwave"></a>The heat wave "is another clear indicator that emissions of greenhouse gases by human activity are causing weather extremes that impact our living conditions," Steven Pawson, chief of the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, <a href="https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/150083/heatwaves-and-fires-scorch-europe-africa-and-asia">said in a press release.</a>

UK passes 104 degrees, breaking all-time record, as Europe swelters in extreme heat wave

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Taylor Swift has postponed the second of three Eras Tour concerts in Rio de Janeiro.</li><li>The singer cited "extreme temperatures" and said the safety of her fans, fellow performers, and crew came first.</li></ul>Taylor Swift announced Saturday afternoon she would postpone a long-awaited concert in Rio de Janeiro amid extreme temperatures, following the death of a fan the previous night."I'm writing this from my dressing room in the stadium. The decision has been made to postpone tonight's show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio," Swift said in an Instagram story. "The safety and well-being of my fans, fellow performers, and crew has to and always will come first."Earlier on Saturday, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-devastated-after-fan-dies-eras-tour-brazil-2023-11">Swift had announced the death of a fan</a>, whom Brazilian media reports identified as Ana Clara Benevides. The reports said Benevides died of cardiac arrest after fainting amid the crowds at Swift's Friday evening concert."I can't even tell you how devastated I am by this," Swift wrote on Instagram. "There's very little information I have other than the fact that she was so incredibly beautiful and far too young."Brazil has been beset by a dangerous heatwave, with temperatures in Rio reportedly climbing to nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Inside the stadium during Friday's concert, fans appeared to be sweltering and dehydrated. Videos circulated on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok showing <a target="_blank" href="https://www.insider.com/taylor-swift-crew-give-water-fans-during-hot-brazil-concert-2023-11">Swift halting her concert to help fans who needed water</a>.Brazilian newspaper <a target="_blank" href="https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/culture/2023/11/taylor-swift-fan-dies-after-feeling-unwell-during-concert-in-rio.shtml">Folha de S.Paulo</a> reported that 1,000 fans fainted during Friday's show, and others vomited and suffered "extreme dehydration."Swift had been scheduled to perform three back-to-back shows in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

Taylor Swift postpones Eras Tour concert in Brazil due to extreme heat after the death of a fan

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A 5-year-old boy in Texas died after he was left in a car as temperatures reached 101 degrees.</li><li>An average of 38 US children die of pediatric vehicular heatstroke each year. 2022 has seen five such deaths.</li></ul>A 5-year-old boy in Texas who died after he was left in a car could be one of the dozens of children to die in a similar manner in a year. "There's a real mindset, especially with new parents, of 'Well, you know, I would never leave my <keyword id="11907061" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="child" source="Orion">child</keyword> in the car.' Well, it happens," San Jose State University's Jan Null, one of the <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/child-safety/you-can-help-prevent-hot-car-deaths">nation's leading investigators</a> of children's heatstroke deaths in <keyword id="20632" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cars" source="Orion">cars</keyword>, told Insider. "It happens to every socio-economic demographic there is. Every sort of job title, from social workers, principals, doctors, nurses, lawyers, to the unemployed and the underserved, you know, so it runs the whole gamut. So it can happen to anybody."Authorities in Houston said the child's mother, who was rushing to prepare for a birthday party, accidentally left the boy in the car for two to three hours, <a href="https://abc13.com/hot-car-death-homicide-investigation-child-died/11981689/">KTRK reported</a>. The temperature at the time reached 101 degrees Fahrenheit, according to data by the nearby <a href="https://w1.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KIAH.html">Houston Intercontinental Airport</a>. While <a href="https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2022-06-20-heat-wave-midwest-south-late-june">summer heat waves</a> are causing blazing temperatures, Null said there is no safe way to leave a child in a vehicle, regardless of the circumstance or temperature. "Never leave a child unattended in a car," Null said. "Not even for a minute." Since 1998, some 912 children have died in the US from pediatric vehicular heatstroke, according to <a href="https://www.noheatstroke.org/index.htm">Null's data</a>. On average, 38 children die of PVH each year. Thus far in 2022, five children – whose ages ranged from 3 months old to five years old – have died due to pediatric vehicular heatstroke, according to Null's data. Two of the deaths were in Texas, while others were in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Georgia. "It's primarily the southern states. They have longer hot seasons," Null said. "You have higher sun angles, your warmer climates."However, <a href="https://www.noheatstroke.org/state.htm">all but three states</a> in the US – Alaska, New Hampshire, and Vermont – have seen a pediatric vehicular heatstroke death, Null said. While the majority of deaths occurred when temperatures climbed over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, several deaths were reported when temperatures hadn't even reached 70 degrees. According to a <a href="https://www.noheatstroke.org/vehicle_heating.htm">demo by Null</a>, a car sitting outdoors in 70-degree heat can reach an indoor temperature of 96 degrees after just 15 minutes. After 60 minutes, the indoor temperature can reach 113 degrees. <h2>Children 'forgotten' in cars make up half of pediatric vehicular heatstroke cases</h2>In about 52% of cases of PVH deaths, the child was forgotten in the car, according to Null's <a href="https://www.noheatstroke.org/PVH_2022.htm">data</a>. To prevent that, Null said to utilize a "visual reminder" that there is a child in the car, such as a stuffed animal. "Put that stuffed animal in the front seat with you," Null said, or put your wallet, purse, or briefcase "in the back seat with the child ... so it's one more reason to go and look at the backseat when you get out of the vehicle." In 25% of cases where a child died from PVH, the child – typically ages two to five – gained access to the car on their own, Null said. "Keep your cars locked. Keep keys and key fobs away from children," Null said. "Teach children if they are ever trapped in a car, number one, try to go out the front doors. Or, honk the horn, get people's attention." In 20% of cases, Null said, the child was knowingly left in the vehicle "while a parent goes and does something else." "There's lots of other real hazards besides the heat," Null said. "The kids that get left in cars, there are cases where they have put the vehicles in gear, and they've killed other people or killed themselves." Or, Null said, there are cases where a parent leaves a child in the car to run into the store, and "someone carjacks the car, and the kid is in the back." <h2>New technology has its limits.</h2>While there are developing technologies to prevent hot car deaths, Null said they may have limited impact in the immediate future. Part of the sweeping infrastructure bill that passed in 2021 included <a href="https://www.wtsp.com/article/tech/new-technology-in-infrastructure-bill-could-prevent-hot-car-deaths/67-af932fde-cc32-4285-9657-146ee92bf290">requirements for new cars</a> to have the technology to alert drivers of a passenger left in the car."That will save some lives, but it's only gonna be in new cars," Null said, noting that <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a33457915/average-age-vehicles-on-road-12-years/#:~:text=Fewer%20new%2Dvehicle%20purchases%20as,to%205%20percent%20this%20year.">less than ten percent</a> of cars on the roads are new. "Only about a third of the <a href="https://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2019/11/new-vehicle-buyers-still-older-demographic-study-shows/">people buying new cars</a> are age 45 or less, sort of in the parenting age group."Ultimately, Null said, it comes down to awareness."I wish I could say definitively we're making more progress," Null said of the annual PVH deaths. "That number needs to be zero."

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Dehydrated birds are falling from the sky in <keyword id="11892747" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="india" source="Orion">India</keyword> as a record <keyword id="6371478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="heatwave" source="Orion">heatwave</keyword> dries up water sources.</li><li>In India's Gujarat state dozens of high flying birds such as pigeons or kites are falling from the sky daily.</li></ul>Dehydrated birds are falling from the sky in India as a record heatwave dries up water sources, veterinary doctors and animal rescuers said, according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/birds-fall-sky-heatwave-scorches-india-2022-05-11/">Reuters</a>.In India's western Gujarat state, currently averaging temperatures over 110°F, dozens of high flying birds, including pigeons and kites, have been dropping out of the sky every day, Reuters reported. Vets in an animal hospital in Ahmedabad said they had treated thousands of birds in recent weeks, the outlet said.<div type="image" title="A vet provides medicine to an eagle after it was dehydrated due to heat at Jivdaya Charitable Trust in Ahmedabad." height="4344" width="6236" msid="91560788" hostid="261"></div>"This year has been one of the worst in recent times. We have seen a 10% increase in the number of birds that need rescuing," Manoj Bhavsar, who works with the trust and has been rescuing birds for over a decade, told Reuters.Vets have been injecting water into birds' mouths with syringes and feeding them multivitamin tablets.Other animals, including cats, have also been suffering from <keyword id="12292560" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dehydration" source="Orion">dehydration</keyword>.<div type="image" title="Vets administer saline drip to a cat that is covered by a wet cloth after it was dehydrated due to heat at Jivdaya Charitable Trust in Ahmedabad." height="4343" width="6164" msid="91560791" hostid="261"></div>Since March, large parts of India and Pakistan have been suffering from searing temperatures, which the <a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/news/india-and-pakistan-act-save-lives-from-extreme-heat">World Meteorological Organization</a> said was India's hottest March.This month temperatures were expected to <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/05/india-and-pakistans-brutal-heat-wave-poised-to-resurge/">peak at around 122°F</a> near the India and Pakistan border.The nearly "unsurvivable" heat is increasingly the result of human-caused climate change, according to<a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/05/india-and-pakistans-brutal-heat-wave-poised-to-resurge/"> Yale Climate Connections.</a>India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned of<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-too-hot-says-modi-sending-fire-warning-nationwide-delhi-landfill-burns-2022-04-27/"> fire risk</a> from the extreme temperatures, and hospitals in Gujarat have been warned to set up special wards to treat heatstroke and other heat-related diseases, Reuters said.India has recorded <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/india-heatwave-climate-crisis-b2070685.html">25 deaths resulting from heatstroke</a> since March, and residents have described <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/india-heatwave-weather-gujarat-climate-b2068638.html">vomiting, dizziness, and skin rashes</a> caused by the heat.

Birds are falling from the sky in India as a record heatwave dries up water sources

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="204503" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Death-Valley">Death Valley</keyword>, California, recorded the world's highest temperature since 2017 when it reached 128 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday.</li><li>It was recorded at the aptly named Furnace Creek, Death Valley's official <keyword id="6359992" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="weather">weather</keyword> station.</li><li>The <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> comes amid a <keyword id="6371478" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="heatwave">heatwave</keyword> baking the southern United States. The high temperatures are expected to move north and east later in the week.</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/27/meteorologists-say-2020-on-course-to-be-hottest-year-since-records-began">Meteorologists have warned</a> that 2020 could become one of the hottest years on record.</li></ul>The official weather station in Death Valley, California, recorded a temperature of 128 degrees Fahrenheit on Sunday, the highest recorded temperature on Earth since 2017.A temperature of 128.7 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded in Turbat, Pakistan, in May 2017, according to the <a href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/wmo-verifies-3rd-and-4th-hottest-temperature-recorded-earth">World Meteorological Organization</a>.<a href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-recorded-temperature/">According to Guinness World Records</a>, Death Valley holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on Earth, a blistering 134 degrees Fahrenheit in 1913. However, this number has been disputed as some meteorologists question old temperature records, according to the WMO.The heat was so extreme in Death Valley on Sunday that cars were breaking down. Death Valley National Park officials said on Facebook that rangers were able to respond to "at least three vehicles," but that "no major incidents were reported." Officials noted that the Furnace Creek Visitor Center thermometer shows "temperatures a degree or two hotter than the official temperatures."The southern United States has been experiencing a heat wave that has seen a number of <keyword id="3175510" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="record-breaking-temperatures">record-breaking temperatures</keyword>. Texas reported temperatures of 110 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time high for the month of July, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/heat-wave-gulf-coast-southern-plains-hot-weather-severe-thunderstorms-northern-plains-midwest">according to Fox News.</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/27/meteorologists-say-2020-on-course-to-be-hottest-year-since-records-began">Earlier this year, meteorologists said</a> 2020 could become one of the hottest years on record. So far, <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/warmest-year-on-record-2020-likely/">NASA ranks it</a> just behind 2016, which experienced a strong El Niño through the first half of the year, warming colder winter and spring temperatures.Last month, <a href="https://www.insider.com/arctic-hottest-temperature-record-climage-change-2020-6">Insider reported</a> that the Arctic hit its hottest temperature ever, recording just over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. The number was 32 degrees higher than normal Arctic temperatures. Climate scientist Martin Stendel said on social media that such record-breaking temperatures would be a "1 in 100,000" year event if not for climate change.Climate data dating back to 1880 shows the hottest years on record have all occurred in the past five years, <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature">according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). </a>The effects of climate change go beyond record-breaking temperatures. Climate change will lead to "extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising seas, and a range of other impacts," <a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-effects/">according to National Geographic.</a><ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/arctic-hottest-temperature-record-climage-change-2020-6">The Arctic hit its hottest temperature on record, more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/hottest-days-temperatures-in-history-across-the-50-states-2019-9">The hottest days in history and record temperatures in each US state</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ocean-temperature-2019-hottest-year-ever-2020-1">We've put the heat equivalent of 3.6 billion Hiroshima bomb explosions into the oceans. The water was hotter last year than ever in recorded history.</a></li></ul>

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