California braces for dangerous heat as wildfire battle continues
California is bracing for another dangerously warm weekend, with dry winds, parched vegetation, and triple-digit temperatures threatening to ignite new fires and complicating containment efforts...
How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering
Redlining helped reshape the urban landscape of U.S. cities. It also left communities of color far more vulnerable to rising heat.
Death Valley Just Recorded the Hottest Temperature on Earth
In the popular imagination, Death Valley in Southern California is the hottest place on earth. At 3:41 p.m. on Sunday, it lived up to that...
Seven East Coast states saw their hottest July on record
July 2020 was record hot for much of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Sizzling temperatures and sultry humidity baked the Acela corridor for most of the...
Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study
Rising temperatures are set to cause particular devastation in poorer, hotter parts of the world that will struggle to adapt to unbearable conditions that will...
The Planet Has a Fever
A recent study shows heat waves are growing longer and more frequent in almost every part of the world. The findings emphasize the need to...
Baghdad soars to 125 blistering degrees, its highest temperature on record
During a virtual fundraiser late last week focused on climate action, former vice president Joe Biden made a direct appeal to voters young enough to...
Siberian heat streak and Arctic temperature record virtually ‘impossible’ without global warming, study says
In a stark new finding, a study shows that six straight months of anomalously mild conditions in large parts of northern Siberia so far this...