About 65 million people were under heat alerts in the north-eastern and midwest states on Friday, as an early season heatwave in the US continued…
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Indian engineers warn of prolonged blackouts amid searing heatwave
Engineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions of people.…
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With the official start of summer still weeks away, a record-setting heatwave is cooking the south-western US, causing dangerous conditions far earlier than normal. More…
View More Brutal heatwave cooks US south-west, an early sign of sizzling summer aheadWorld’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target
Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels this century, blasting past internationally…
View More World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C targetWest Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study finds
A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more likely by human-caused global heating, a study has…
View More West Africa heatwave was supercharged by climate crisis, study findsFood, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planet
Cut an apple in half, and the white flesh reveals a cluster of black pips arranged in the shape of a star. It is a…
View More Food, soil, water: how the extinction of insects would transform our planetEarth’s ‘vital signs’ worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn
Earth’s “vital signs” are worse than at any time in human history, an international team of scientists has warned, meaning life on the planet is…
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