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How the Balkans region grappled with the hottest summer in more than a century

How the Balkans region grappled with the hottest summer in more than a century

Tired Earth September 07, 2024

Climate scientists say that global warming caused mostly by burning fossil fuels has led to warmer temperatures, with the world....

Extreme heat waves broiling the planet in 2024 aren’t normal: How climate change is heating up weather around the world

Extreme heat waves broiling the planet in 2024 aren’t normal: How climate change is heating up weather around the world

Tired Earth July 10, 2024

Less than a month into summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has already experienced an extreme heat....

Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people

Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people

Tired Earth March 30, 2024

From 1979 to 1983, global heat waves would last eight days on average, but by 2016 to 2020 that was....

Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared, says new research

Northern Europe faces biggest relative increase in uncomfortable heat and is dangerously unprepared, says new research

Hannah Steiner July 20, 2023

Buildings in the northern hemisphere are primarily designed to withstand cold seasons by maximizing solar gains and minimizing ventilation—like greenhouses.

Animals at risk from heat waves if global temperatures keep rising, says study

Animals at risk from heat waves if global temperatures keep rising, says study

Debbie Banks January 22, 2023

Recurring periods of extreme heat affect wildlife.

Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on record

Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on record

Liang Lan August 25, 2022

A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has spread across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan....

Coral levels in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef are at the highest in 36 years

Coral levels in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef are at the highest in 36 years

George Scott August 04, 2022

From August 2021 to May 2022, the central and northern regions of the Great Barrier Reef had hard coral cover....

McKinney Fire is now California’s largest wildfire this year

McKinney Fire is now California’s largest wildfire this year

Liang Lan August 01, 2022

With a heat wave hanging over the region, it took only a weekend for a wildfire raging near California’s northern....