Zoe, Xenia, Cleon and Cerberus. You might have heard these names come up recently. They don’t belong to people. Rather they are monikers appointed to heat waves around the world. …
“If we’ve lost the ice, we’ve lost the 2-degree water,” Michael Litzow, shellfish assessment program manager with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, told me. “Cold water, it’s their niche—they’re …
The current heat wave in Italy is “very unusual,” says Mercalli, because of its long duration: The heat event is expected to last roughly two weeks. A study published in …
Just weeks after a third of the US population was hit with air-quality alerts thanks to smoke from climate-change-fueled fires in Canada, 100 million Americans are now under heat alerts. …
But malaria hasn’t been persistently present in the US since it was eliminated here in 1951, in a campaign that gave rise to the CDC. (The agency was originally called …
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Nightmare summer travel is upon us as vacation season coincides with high temperatures and severe weather capable of disrupting flights. By Wednesday of this week, FlightAware, a site that follows …
The island of Svalbard, about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, is warming twice as fast as the rest of the Arctic, which itself is warming up to …
The world just had the hottest week on record and is now entering into “uncharted territory,” according to the World Meteorological Organization based on preliminary data. The global mean temperature …
CAMDEN, N.J. ― On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the …
The future of fighting more intense, climate-fuelled wildfires is in a makeshift outdoor laboratory in the Los Angeles suburb of Fullerton, Calif. There, on the grounds of California State University, …