The world experienced an unprecedented heat wave in 2022, and this long duration and extreme heat wave event aroused widespread concern. Heat wave events have a huge impact on the global melting of glaciers.
Earth Sciences
Jan 30, 2024
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Temperatures in parts of Chile and northern Argentina have soared to 10°C–20°C above average over the last few days. Towns in the Andes mountains have reached 38°C or more, while Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, saw ...
Environment
Aug 7, 2023
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Blistering heat that has baked swathes of North America and Europe this month would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, researchers said Tuesday, as intense temperatures spark health alerts ...
Environment
Jul 25, 2023
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As the holiday season gets underway on the world's fastest warming continent, AFP looks back at a series of brutally hot, dry summers in Europe that have left tens of thousands of people dead.
Environment
Jul 10, 2023
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Between 30,000 and 35,000 people have died from the effects of summer heat in France since 2014, the country's public health agency said in an estimate released Friday.
Environment
Jun 23, 2023
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Bangladesh has shut thousands of schools as it struggles through its lengthiest heatwave in half a century, with widespread power cuts only compounding locals' misery.
Environment
Jun 7, 2023
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Heat waves in Aotearoa New Zealand over recent summers are already causing wide-ranging effects on the environment, a new study suggests.
Environment
May 2, 2023
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After its hottest February since 1901, the India Meteorological Department has issued an early heat wave warning and forecasts for higher-than-normal temperatures between March and May.
Environment
Mar 15, 2023
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"There's nothing left here," sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he's just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead.
Environment
Sep 9, 2022
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Firefighters backed by more than 20 aircraft battled a wildfire in northwestern Spain which appears to have been started deliberately, local authorities said on Thursday.
Environment
Aug 4, 2022
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