heat waves
Summer heat waves already deadly in Asia, and it’s still spring
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New Delhi — It’s still spring but hundreds of millions of people across South and Southeast Asia have already faced scorching hot ...
New tools from NOAA and CDC show people their risk from heat, as another hot summer looms
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Federal officials on Monday unveiled a set of tools aimed at helping protect people in the United States from the dangers of ...
Heat Waves Are Moving Slower and Staying Longer, Study Finds
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When heat waves swept across large parts of the planet last summer, in many places the oppressive temperatures loitered for days or ...
Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people
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Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and they are baking more people for a longer time ...
Global ocean heat has hit a new record every single day for the last year
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The world’s oceans have now experienced an entire year of unprecedented heat, with a new temperature record broken every day, new data ...
The first-ever European climate risk assessment finds a continent unprepared for growing extremes
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Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared for them, the European Environment Agency said in its first-ever risk assessment for ...
How climate change contributes to wildfires like Chile’s
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At least 112 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two days of national mourning. ...
Scientists explain why the record-shattering 2023 heat has them on edge. Warming may be worsening
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The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary. But scientists worry that ...
2023 “virtually certain” to be warmest year recorded, climate agency says
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As 2023 creeps closer to its end, new climate data shows that the global average temperature is already the highest ever recorded ...
In search of 10 billion missing snow crabs, scientists eye marine heat waves
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About 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from Bering Sea waters between 2018 and 2021, forcing to shutter fisheries in Alaska last winter ...
