How hot can a heat wave really get? Before June 2021, scientists thought they knew. That’s when one of the...
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Montse Aguilar was a healthy 51-year-old woman when she started her shift cleaning streets in Barcelona at around 2:30 p.m....
The electric grid for Boston and the surrounding region operated under a precautionary alert on Tuesday as the surplus of...
In any other year, May 14 may well have been an energy disaster in Texas. Temperatures climbed to seasonal levels...
In northern China, road surfaces have soared to 158F (70C). In California’s Central Valley, temperatures are reaching into the triple...
Sweltering heat more commonly seen in the throes of summer than in the spring was making an unwelcome visit this...
As Europe gets hotter, more people are expected to die from extreme heat, outweighing the reduction in those killed by...
Phoenix has become a nerve-wracking bellwether for extreme heat. Arizona’s capital recently endured a three-week stretch when every day broke...
Chicago and the Midwest will swelter under the warmest days of summer as forecasters warn people to limit their outdoor...
In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across...