global waming

Temperatures have soared towards new highs across three continents as heatwaves and wildfires are scorching parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Health authorities have sounded alarms from North America to Europe and Asia, urging people to stay hydrated and shelter from the burning sun, in a stark reminder of the effects of global warming.

Heavy rain pounded Akita Prefecture in northeastern Japan on Saturday due to an active seasonal rain front, triggering river flooding and landslides that have left four injured.

Record heat is forecast around the world from the United States, where tens of millions are battling dangerously high temperatures, to Europe and Japan, in the latest example of the rising threat from global warming.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out pandemic-era face masks.

In July 2021, my family stood on our local beach in Vancouver toting towels and sunscreen, wondering why the shorefront looked a little odd. It dawned on us slowly. At low tide, all the mussels were open, lifeless shells that crunched ominously underfoot, cooked by the extreme heat wave that had gripped British Columbia the week before. Soon it was in papers around the world: One researcher guessed that the record-breaking heat must have killed more than a billion creatures along British Columbia’s shores.

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Floods that killed at least 13 people in Italy's northern Emilia-Romagna region caused billions of euros' worth of damage and hit agriculture particularly hard, the regional governor said on Thursday.

Standing in his field of stunted, withered maize, Santi Caudevilla is very worried. “If the weather does not change it will be zero. Nothing is going to be harvested,” he said.

Britain's Drax (DRX.L) has ended coal-fired power generation at its North Yorkshire power plant after 50 years, it said on Tuesday.

The Earth’s ice sheets lost enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research.