A Sustainable Life: To keep your cool in a heatwave, it may help to water your trees
GREGORY MOORE, in an article first published on The Conversation, looks at how trees can help reduce temperatures in urban areas…
Postcards: Heat stroke risk won’t stop Japan’s ageing farmers as temperatures soar
SATOSHI SUGIYAMA and TOM BATEMAN, of Reuters, report…
Postcards: Balkans’ new love for air conditioning strains grid as temperatures soar
FATOS BYTYCI and IVANA SEKULARAC, of Reuters, report…
Second hottest July breaks 13-month record streak, EU scientists say
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Last month was the second hottest July for the planet on record, breaking a 13-month period when each month was warmest, which had been in part fuelled by the warming El Nino weather pattern, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Thursday. The month was 1.48 degrees Celsius above the […]
Number of days over 35 degrees Celsius surges in world’s scorching capitals
Reuters The number of days reaching a sizzling 35 degrees Celsius in 20 of the world’s largest capitals – from Delhi to Jakarta to Buenos Aires – has risen 52 per cent over the past three decades, a thinktank analysis found on Friday. More than 300 million people live in the world’s 20 most populous […]
Extreme heat kills hundreds, millions more sweltering worldwide as summer begins
London, UK Reuters Deadly heatwaves are scorching cities on four continents as the Northern Hemisphere marks the first day of summer, a sign that climate change may again help to fuel record-breaking heat that could surpass last summer as the warmest in 2,000 years. Record temperatures in recent days are suspected to have caused hundreds, […]
Heatwave response: In a boiling world, chief heat officers battle ‘silent killer’
With heatwaves roasting cities, chief heat officers try to protect people from temperatures so high “the body can’t cool down”. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Wow!: Australian scientists help the homeless beat heatwaves with mobile cooling hubs
CORDELIA HSU, of Reuters, reports…
Scorching heat wave bakes US as heat index soars past 38 degrees; Greece wildfires die down
Chicago, US Reuters Tens of millions of Americans were confronted with a one-two punch of brutally hot temperatures and oppressive humidity on Friday as an unrelenting heat wave settled over the midwest and East Coast and was expected to persist into the weekend. More than 175 million people in the US were under excessive heat […]
July, 2023, set to be world’s hottest month on record
Reuters July, 2023, is set to upend previous heat benchmarks, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday after scientists said it was on track to be the world’s hottest month on record. The UN World Meteorological Organization and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service also said in a joint statement it was “extremely likely” July, […]