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People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. 

China endures ‘heat wave from hell’ with record-breaking temperatures

Climate Change

This summer, China experienced its longest heat wave on record — more than 70 consecutive days of scorching temperatures. Residents have found some relief in caves, bomb shelters and air-conditioned supermarkets, but one expert says this summer should be a “wake-up call” to do more to mitigate climate change.

A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road due to very hot weather in New Delhi, India

Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage

Environment
Farm workers wearing hats break up earth

Farmworkers who face extreme heat fear retaliation or deportation if they complain, says nurse

Human rights
A young girl is shown leaning up against a stone column spraying a stream of water.

Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall

Environment
A sign the shape of a red stop sign warns of extreme heat danger at Badwater Basin with a couple taking a selfie in the distance.

The world’s getting hotter. Can naming heat waves raise awareness of the risks?

Environment
Adults and children swim in water near a large, white building in the background and birds flying overhead

In Karachi, planting dense urban forests could save the city from extreme heat

The Big Fix

Extreme heat often hovers over Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city. But each time Shahzad Qureshi transforms a barren patch of land into a dense, urban forest, he helps his city adapt to extreme urban heat.

A close-up photo of a boy playing in a fountain in Brussels, Belgium.

How people are keeping cool amid record-breaking temperatures

Climate Change

If it’s summer where you are right now, odds are you’ve become intimately familiar with your air conditioner as the US, Europe and other parts of the world hit near-record temperatures.

The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t

Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore

Global Politics

As President Trump turns US government policy away from the realities of climate change, a new scientific study confirms a link between climate pollution and dangerously extreme weather. The irony of the timing is not lost on the study’s lead author.

Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?

Technology

We’re getting better at figuring out whether something like this month’s deluge in Louisiana was influenced by climate change. And that’s important, says a climate scientist who’s also an aid worker, to get a better handle on what might be ahead to try to avert more human disasters.We’re getting better at figuring out whether something like this month’s deluge in Louisiana was influenced by climate change. And that’s important, says a climate scientist who’s also an aid worker, to get a better handle on what might be ahead to try to avert more human disasters.

Displaced person camp in Iraq

Displaced Iraqis struggle to stay cool during sweltering heat wave

Environment

Millions of Iraqis in makeshift camps suffer through temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees Farenheit.