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Indian heat wave hits 50 degrees Celsius — shaping up to be India’s hottest summer ever
The last time temperatures got this high was in 2016, when Phalodi, a region in the Indian s…
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Jharkhand announces school closure till June 14 amid heat wave
Ranchi office of the India meteorological department on Sunday issued a heat wave alert for the sta…
ANI
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Europe's hellish heat wave is caused by a high-pressure weather system unlike any ever seen before
One study found that climate change made the European heat wave of 2003 twice as likely, while a 20…
Aylin Woodward
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Last month was the hottest June ever recorded in Earth's history, with temperatures nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit above average
France's previous national temperature record was set 16 years ago, on August 12, 2003, when 15,000…
Aylin Woodward
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Extreme heat is straining Texas's power grid and fueling Yosemite fires. It's forecast to last 2 more weeks.
Yosemite's giant sequoias and Texas's power grid are both under threat as a persistent heat wave mo…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Heat waves are dominating summer, killing thousands, and fueling wildfires. The world needs to prepare for more.
Europe is suffering its third heat wave this summer, and it's not alone. The new norm is simultaneo…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Images from space show California's forests and lakes drying out in a record mega-drought
Satellite images show the climate crisis playing out across the western US. Drought and heat are tr…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Nearly 130 million Americans are under extreme-heat alerts this week. Relief is coming, but the summer heat could still be above normal for weeks.
From the Midwest to the Gulf Coast, 130 million people have been under extreme-heat alerts as tempe…
Jenny McGrath
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Heat waves and floods shattered records. Fires ravaged the Arctic and the Amazon. This was the climate crisis in 2019.
Scientists say climate change likely played a role in the severe polar vortex event that engulfed N…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Photos show historically low reservoirs across California as drought and a heat wave threaten power plants
A key Northern California power plant will likely have to shut down for the first time this summer,…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Drought maps show the western US at its driest in 20 years - a ticking time bomb for even more fires and power failures
Key water reservoirs were already alarmingly dry when a heat wave blanketed the western US, straini…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Madison…
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A family of bears marched past a crowd to cool off in Lake Tahoe - a cute, but terrifying, example of our climate-crisis dystopia
As the climate-crisis rapidly forces humans and wildlife together in new ways, such encounters will…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Erin Sn…
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53 migrants died after being inside a trailer during a heat wave. Crossing into the US may get deadlier as climate change makes extreme heat more common.
The deaths of dozens of migrants, who were found in a sweltering tractor-trailer, highlight how cli…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Grocery stores are pulling perishable food, covering aisles in plastic sheets, and running sprinklers on their roofs as they battle a record heat wave
People in Washington state posted pictures of grocery stores with empty freezer aisles and refriger…
Grace Kay,Hannah Towey
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A giant 'blob' of hot water more than twice the size of California threatens the survival of fish and coral near New Zealand
Other underwater ecosystems are also put at risk as waters warm. Higher sea temperatures make it di…