Guest post: Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change
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Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human…
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human…
Avec le réchauffement climatique, les chercheurs s'attendent à ce que les vagues de chaleur soient de plus en plus nombreuses…
Dat lazen we onlangs in het tijdschrift Dag Allemaal. Maar klopt dat wel? In een interview met Dag Allemaal waarschuwt…
Blistering heatwaves hot enough to melt tarmac, crippling water shortages that upended economies, torrential rains that swept…
Comprehensive dental care I am disabled, I have diabetes, bipolar and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Israel, would-be light unto the nations, has no climate change legislation. While some feel that Israel and the emissions of…
L'été dernier, nous avons battu des records de températures. Et les chercheurs nous préparent déjà à l'idée de devoir affronter…
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Mer än hälften av jordens befolkning bor nu i städer, och när globala temperaturer stiger blir effekterna större där.
Flying low along a mountain ridge in central Argentina, Clayton Eveland slaloms right and left, steering the plane through one…
Humans have seemingly perfected the science of staying cool. Air conditioning and refrigeration units are relatively cheap, the…
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Two-thirds of the United States is bracing for a massive heat wave, which could produce temperatures…
Two-thirds of the United States is bracing for a massive heat wave, which could produce temperatures above 100 degrees…
By the year 2050, temperatures will top 100 degrees Fahrenheit far more frequently.
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Two-thirds of the United States is bracing for a massive heat wave, which could produce temperatures…
Europe is only three days into summer, and Mother Nature is quickly cranking up the heat.
Europe is only three days into summer, and Mother Nature is quickly cranking up the heat.
(CNN)Europe is only three days into summer, and Mother Nature is quickly cranking up the heat.
In August 2017, Sherrard O. Williams sat in a sweltering prison cell and imagined how it would feel to escape the heat.
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat.
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat.
The summer of 2018 was intense: deadly wildfires, persistent drought, killer floods and record-breaking heat.
Our Earth is becoming warmer with each passing year. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) latest report…
If Bitcoin were to become a true global transactional currency, the electricity needed to mine it alone would generate enough…
A report tries to think through the side effects of the dramatic success of bitcoin If bitcoin were to become a true global…
(Bloomberg) -- If bitcoin were to become a true global transactional currency, the electricity needed to mine it alone would…
Un informe histórico del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos sobre el Cambio Climático, encargado en la cumbre de 2015 para el…
A landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, commissioned at the breakthrough 2015 summit that…
A landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, commissioned at the breakthrough 2015 summit that…
近年來,全球暖化加劇,夏季氣溫年年飆升,今年熱浪席捲全球,北美洲與日本等地區出現飆破40°C的高溫。這場高溫浩劫也凸顯了貧富不均帶來的問題:當富人吹著涼爽的冷氣,窮人只能苦苦忍受燠熱的環境,甚至活活被熱死;因此改善熱浪來襲時的窮人處境成為各國政府刻不容緩的重…
The summer’s deadly global heatwave has made it impossible to ignore: in cities worldwide, we are now divided into the…
Hitzewelle Die Teilung in Arm und Reich lässt sich auch beim Klima nicht ignorieren: Während sich Wohlhabende Kühlung…
Sólo durante la última semana: * la Secretaría de Salud de Santa Marta, al norte de Colombia, recomendó evitar las relaciones…
Sólo durante laúltima semana: * la Secretaría de Salud de Santa Marta, al norte de Colombia, recomendó evitar las relaciones…
More than 100 major wildfires are raging across the American West, including the largest blaze in Californias history.
When July’s heatwave swept through the Canadian province of Quebec, killing more than 90 people in little over a week, the…
Imagine a city at 50C (122F). The pavements are empty, the parks quiet, entire neighbourhoods appear uninhabited.
W hen July’s heatwave swept through the Canadian province of Quebec, killing more than 90 people in little over a week, the…
This has been an extraordinarily punishing summer in the northern hemisphere. Sweaty people from Shimanto, Japan to Salamanca…
Rising global temperatures, if they remain unchecked, could bring with them an onslaught of fatal heat waves that would send…
(Getty/jhorrocks) At least 783 U.S. workers died as a result of extreme heat between 1992 and 2016, while 69,374 were injured…
caption By the year 2050, temperatures will top 100 degrees Fahrenheit far more frequently.
Heat causes heat exhaustion, which can be dangerous. Heat causes heat exhaustion, which can be dangerous.
As the mercury creeps up over the summer, it gets harder to do anything other than curl up inside an air-conditioned room or…
REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton As the mercury creeps up over the summer, it gets harder to do anything other than curl up inside an…
Ein bisschen überrascht ist Fred Hattermann doch. Zwar beschäftigt sich der Wissenschaftler vom Potsdam-Institut für…
Ein bisschen überrascht ist Fred Hattermann doch. Zwar beschäftigt sich der Wissenschaftler vom Potsdam-Institut für…
During the summer of 2003, 70,000 people died from a series of heat waves that crawled across the European subcontinent.
Monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have topped 410 ppm for the first time in more than 800,000 years, according…
source Kevin Frayer/ Monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have topped 410 ppm for the first time in more than 800,00…
source Kevin Frayer/ Monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have topped 410 ppm for the first time in more than 800,00…
Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have topped 410 ppm for the first time in more than…
Read full story Kevin Frayer/ Monthly average atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have topped 410 ppm for the first time in more…
The concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere hasn't been as high as it is now since long before humans existed.
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FEATURES | January 24. 2018. 8:00 Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2017 Every day, dozens of…
Things are not going well for the Earth. It goes well beyond the Trump administration’s decision to eventually leave the Paris…
Image: Michael Coghlan/Flickr Think of the stickiest, record-hot summer you’ve ever experienced, whether you’re 30 or 60 years…
Think of the stickiest, record-hot summer you've ever experienced, whether you're 30 or 60 years old.
London, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What Christian Clot remembers most vividly from his days in Iran's boiling Dasht-e…
By Zoe Tabary LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What Christian Clot remembers most vividly from his days in Iran's boiling…
"We tend to think we're stronger than nature - but we're not," explorer says By Zoe Tabary LONDON, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters…
A woman farmer drinks water from an earthen pot in a wheat field on the outskirts of Ajmer in the desert Indian state of…
LONDON — What Christian Clot remembers most vividly from his days in Iran's boiling Dasht-e Lut desert was having to stay…
By Zoe Tabary LONDON, Sept 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - What Christian Clot remembers most vividly from his days in Iran's…
When Rutam Vora was growing up in Vadodara, a city of about 2 million people near the western coast of India, his parents kept…
When Rutam Vora was growing up in Vadodara, a city of about 2 million people near the western coast of India, his parents kept…
REUTERS/Mat-Su Borough/Stefan Hinman/Handout If we don't cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see more deadly heat waves, acidic…
Published by Business Insider on Fri, 11 Aug 2017 If we don't cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see more deadly heat waves…
source REUTERS/Mat-Su Borough/Stefan Hinman/Handout If we don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions, we’ll see more deadly heat waves…
If we don't cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see more deadly heat waves, acidic oceans, and rising seas.
If we don't cut greenhouse gas emissions, we'll see more deadly heat waves, acidic oceans, and rising seas.
If we don’t cut greenhouse gas emissions, we’ll see more deadly heat waves, acidic oceans, and rising seas.
For many reasons, low-income ethnic minorities are excluded from initiatives to adapt to climate change.
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A majority of city dwellers saw the temperature increase twice as much as the rest of the world.
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Last week’s record-setting heat in the Pacific Northwest and current…
About 30 percent of the world’s population currently is exposed to deadly heat episodes for 20 days or more each year.
Last week’s record-setting heat in the Pacific Northwest and current triple-digit temperatures in Arizona are the latest…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Merrill Singer…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Merrill Singer…
Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut Published 10:03 pm, Sunday, August 6, 2017 (The Conversation is an independent and…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Merrill Singer…
Merrill Singer, University of Connecticut Published 8:03 pm, Sunday, August 6, 2017 (The Conversation is an independent and…
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Merrill Singer…
Home Earth Environment August 7, 2017 August 7, 2017 by Merrill Singer, The Conversation Last week's record-setting heat in the…