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    A person pours tap water into a plastic bottle at the Main Square in Krakow, Poland, on 19 June 2022.

    Heat-related deaths ‘56% higher among women’ during record-breaking 2022 European summer

    导致超过61000人死亡searing heat across Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new study. The summer of 2022 was Eur...Read More

    Heatwaves| Jul 11. 2023.
    A man lies on a sidewalk during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, U.S, on 11 August 2021.

    Unprecedented heat extremes ‘could occur in any region globally’

    Developing countries that have avoided record-breaking heat for many decades are the least prepared for future “exceptional” heatwaves, new resea...Read More

    Heatwaves| Apr 25. 2023.
    Areas of record heat temperatures over the past 10 years and global population density. Credit: Carbon Brief.

    Analysis: Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade

    More frequent and intense extreme heat is one of the major impacts of climate change. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change�...Read More

    Heatwaves| Apr 24. 2023.
    A farm worker takes a break in the heat of the morning

    ‘Poor tropical regions’ suffer greatest economic damage from worsening heatwaves

    “Poor tropical regions” – which contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions – saw the greatest economic damage from worsening hea...Read More

    Heatwaves| Oct 28. 2022.

    Analysis: Africa’s unreported extreme weather in 2022 and climate change

    From deadly floods in Nigeria to devastating drought in Somalia, Africa has faced a run of severe – and sometimes unprecedented – extreme weather...Read More

    Extreme weather| Oct 26. 2022.
    A woman sits in the shade at Primrose Hill during the severe heatwave, London, UK, 19 July 2022. Credit: xStephen Chung / Alamy Stock Photo.

    Guest post: A Met Office review of the UK’s record-breaking summer in 2022

    With the summer of 2022 entering the climate record books as the first time that the UK has hit an air temperature above 40C, it has without question...Read More

    Guest posts| Sep 28. 2022.

    Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world

    In the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, h...Read More

    Attribution| Aug 4. 2022.
    Firefighters respond to a large wildfire at the edge of Birmingham, UK during the July 2022 heatwave

    Climate change made 2022’s UK heatwave ‘at least 10 times more likely’

    The record-breaking UK heatwave of 18-19 July 2022 was made “at least 10 times more likely” by human-caused climate change, a new “rapid-attrib...Read More

    Attribution| Jul 28. 2022.
    Scorched grass and empty deck chairs in Hyde Park, London, UK, during the heatwave in July 2022. Credit: Matthew Chattle / Alamy Stock Photo.

    Analysis: How the UK’s ‘insane’ 40C heat was forecast ‘weeks in advance’

    The UK has provisionally breached 40C for the first time ever, reaching 40.2C at London Heathrow airport. Before this heatwave, temperatures of 40C h...Read More

    UK temperature| Jul 19. 2022.
    Fireman cooling off after battling a fire in hot weather in Montreal, Canada June 2021

    Guest post: What have been the most extreme heatwaves in history?

    In June 2021, a severe heatwave hit western North America, setting a new all-time temperature record for Canada and causing California to declare a s...Read More

    Guest posts| May 4. 2022.
    India-heatwave-2022

    Media reaction: South Asia’s 2022 heatwave and the role of climate change

    For weeks, blistering heat has swept across India, Pakistan and other parts of Asia – leaving millions of people struggling with severe impacts. ...Read More

    Media analysis| May 4. 2022.
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