Wildfires and heatwaves wreaking havoc across swathes of the globe show humanity facing “collective suicide”, the UN secretary general has warned, as governments around the…
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Climate change role clear in many extreme events but social factors also key, study finds
Climate change is to blame for the majority of the heatwaves being recorded around the planet but the relation to other extreme events and their…
View More Climate change role clear in many extreme events but social factors also key, study findsBurning planet: why are the world’s heatwaves getting more intense?
When the temperature readings started to come through from Antarctic weather stations in early March, scientists at first thought there might have been some mistake.…
View More Burning planet: why are the world’s heatwaves getting more intense?Huge wildfire sweeps across Canford Heath nature reserve in Dorset
Families have been evacuated from their homes after a wildfire swept across heathland in Dorset, destroying about 17 hectares (42 acres) of wildlife-rich habitat. Canford…
View More Huge wildfire sweeps across Canford Heath nature reserve in Dorset‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirder
The hundreds of bush fires that hit southern Australia on 7 February 2009 felt, according to witnesses, apocalyptic. It was already hellishly hot that day:…
View More ‘A deranged pyroscape’: how fires across the world have grown weirderFloods and wildfires are now normal life in small-town Canada
When flood waters swept away the highways in and out of Tricia Thorpe’s small town in the Canadian province of British Columbia, there was no…
View More Floods and wildfires are now normal life in small-town CanadaSpain wildfire: almost 1,000 emergency workers fighting blaze
Almost 1,000 firefighters and emergency workers are battling one of the most intractable Spanish wildfires in recent years as the blaze rages for a sixth…
View More Spain wildfire: almost 1,000 emergency workers fighting blazeSmoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic first
Smoke from raging forest fires in Siberia has reached the north pole for the first time in recorded history, as a Russian monitoring institute warned…
View More Smoke from Siberia wildfires reaches north pole in historic firstHuman-induced global heating ‘causes over a third of heat deaths’
More than a third of all heat-related deaths around the world between 1991 and 2018 can be attributed to human-induced global heating, research has found.…
View More Human-induced global heating ‘causes over a third of heat deaths’Climate change could make overwinter ‘zombie’ fires more common
In the boreal forests of the far northern hemisphere, where the climate is warming faster than almost anywhere else, some wildfires are surviving winter snows…
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