Heatwave
While a bear jumps into a Jacuzzi, the poorest Americans are desperate for respite
As climate change fans hotter and longer heatwaves, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defences. Airconditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
- by Jesse Bedayn
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Like ‘soup’: Amid heatwave, Florida water becomes too hot to cool swimmers
In summer, millions grab their swimsuits for a day at the beach and a chance to cool off in the water. But when water temperatures get too high, the appeal is quickly lost.
- by Michael Phillis, Beatrice Dupuy and Rebecca Blackwell
Eastern suburbs council brings in tree cover quota to stop overdevelopment
McMansions will be harder to build in Sydney’s richest suburbs now that property owners are forced to scale back building plans to provide room for more trees.
- by Andrew Taylor
Daily temperatures around Sydney can vary by 10 degrees: How does your suburb compare?
Due to a lack of tree cover, many parts of the city have become “urban heat islands”. Search our map to see how your area rates.
- by Jordan Baker
The missing factor preventing the BoM from declaring an El Nino event
Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology is an outlier among global weather agencies because of the specific conditions it requires for an El Nino declaration.
- by Mike Foley
The hottest July in 120,000 years. What’s in store for Australia this summer?
The scorching heatwaves in Europe, Asia and America provide a glimpse into Australia’s near future and suggest the impacts of global warming might have been underestimated.
- by Nick O'Malley and Angus Dalton
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.
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
Heat ‘dome of doom’ hovers over Texas and Mexico
The large heat dome, with record-setting temperatures, has been held in place by a kink in the jet stream caused by an oceanic heat wave in the North Pacific.
- by Brian K Sullivan
Fire and (melting) ice: Record temperatures in Asia, wildfire smoke cloaks US
Scientists say the warning bells on climate change are at a deafening pitch as temperature records are being broken in Asia and North America is choked by smoke.
- by Miki Perkins