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Europe’s summer holiday threatened by fires as US, South Korea flood
The UN’s weather body reports new temperature records across the northern hemisphere – and parts of the Mediterranean will grow hotter still.
- by Lucy Cormack
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China logs 52.2 degrees as extreme weather rewrites records
Since April, countries across Asia have been hit by several rounds of record-breaking heat, stoking concerns about their ability to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.
Deep impact: Radars reveal Victoria’s road damage is worse than it looks
New technology shows Victoria’s roads are more damaged than they appear on the surface – and authorities say climate change will only make the problem worse.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Pothole repair bill soars to $4b record
Councils are struggling to keep up with road repairs after record rainfall last year damaged 13,000 kilometres of road in NSW alone.
- by Megan Gorrey
Extreme weather threatens best-kept art of the Silk Road
The warming atmosphere is already damaging some of China’s most precious historical artefacts.
- by Christian Shepherd and Lillian Yang
Death Valley sizzles as brutal heatwave continues
The blistering temperatures at the hottest place on Earth come amid a stretch of blistering weather that has put roughly one-third of Americans under some type of heat advisory.
- by John Locher, Adam Beam and Seth Borenstein
Flash floods, landslides kill dozens in South Korea as Europe sizzles through heatwave
While South Korea has been pounded by heavy rains, wildfires are raging in Southern California and European cities have been warned of worse heat to come this week.
- by Nicole Winfield
Weather extremes are thrashing the world, and it’s just a taste of what’s to come
Signs of catastrophic weather events have been brewing in oceans around the globe for months.
- by Laura Chung and Angus Dalton
Summer heat waves killed 61,000 in Europe last year, study says
The findings suggest that two decades of efforts in Europe to adapt to a hotter world have failed to keep up with the pace of global warming.
- by Delger Erdenesanaa
Extreme flooding overwhelms New York roadways
A woman whose house was “completely surrounded” by water has died after trying to get through the flooding with her dog. “She was overwhelmed by tidal-wave type waves,” an Orange County executive said.
- by Bobby Caina Calvan and Hallie Golden
Victorian dams are full. Towns devastated by flooding are again on edge
Water storages across the state are brimming despite expectations of a drier and warmer winter. Flooded communities now fear another disaster.
- by Benjamin Preiss