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More than 80m Americans under air quality alerts while temperatures hit triple digits in south and south-westHuge swaths of the United States continue to face extreme weather as temperatures persist into the triple digits in the south and south-west wh…
Power use in the state reached a record high Tuesday and will continue to strain the grid as the heatwave moves northTexas is trapped under a “heat dome” that is expected to bring more record highs and strain the power grid. As the heatwave expands thr…
Latest ‘heat dome’ event over Texas and Louisiana, plus much of Mexico, driven by human-cause climate change, scientists findThe record heatwave roiling parts of Texas, Louisiana and Mexico was made at least five times more likely due to human-caused c…
In today’s newsletter: Why temperatures are increasing so quickly and what that could mean for the future• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.Even though summer has only just begun, record heatwaves are already being set. …
The boy died after falling ill during the hike, and his stepfather was killed in a car accident as he tried to find help, authorities saidA Florida man and his teenage stepson died after hiking in extreme heat at Big Bend national park in south-west Te…
Record temperatures will continue to put stress on power grids with blackouts reported in some areasExtreme and prolonged heat looks set to continue across the southern states of the US and Mexico through this week. This heatwave, which has already bro…
Tianjin reports all-time record of 41.4C, while Texas and Mexico break numerous temperature recordsParts of north-east China are in the grip of a historic heatwave, with hundreds of weather stations reporting record highs for the month of June. On 22 J…
Multnomah county is suing 17 companies for the fatal heatwave, seeking billions to upgrade public services and infrastructureOregon’s most populous county on Thursday sued major oil and gas companies over a deadly 2021 heatwave that killed dozens of pe…
Questions raised about death toll after more than half of the fatalities reported in a single district in Uttar PradeshAt least 96 people are reported to have died from heat-aggravated conditions during a blistering heatwave across two of India’s most …
Authorities warn of landslides after conducting several thousand flood rescues in two daysAt least 11 people were killed in Brazil’s southern state of Rio Grande do Sul after an extra-tropical cyclone struck the region, according to the state’s authori…