heat waves

Ocean Heat Waves Kill Coral Instantly, Study Finds

Ocean Heat Waves Kill Coral Instantly, Study Finds

Marine heat waves are increasing in frequency, duration and intensity, which spell trouble for corals, according to new research from scientists working at the Great Barrier Reef. The increased frequency in heat waves is a direct byproduct of the climate crisis the scientists say, as the BBC reported. The researchers knew that oceanic heat waves […]

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    Second Major Heat Wave This Summer Smashes Records Across Europe

    Second Major Heat Wave This Summer Smashes Records Across Europe

    Europe’s second extreme heat wave of the summer has lived up to predictions, smashing records across the continent. Paris recorded its all-time highest temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius, BBC News reported. Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands all endured record highs on Wednesday only to see them broken again on Thursday, AccuWeather reported. Thursday’s all-time highs […]

    Europe Braces for Second Extreme Heat Wave This Summer

    Europe Braces for Second Extreme Heat Wave This Summer

    Europe is gearing up for another extreme heat wave that could set all-time records for several European countries. Paris could surpass its all-time high of 40.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday, Meteo France predicted Monday, according to The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang. That record has not been broken since 1947. Overnight minimum records were already […]

    How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather

    How Climate Change Is Fueling Extreme Weather

    By Emilie Karrick Surrusco Across the globe, extreme weather is becoming the new normal. Torrential rains and flooding. Record hurricanes. Destructive wildfires. Deadly heatwaves and drought. From season to season and year to year, weather events that were once rare occurrences are now increasingly commonplace. Human activity is causing these rapid changes. When fossil fuels […]

    50 Million Americans Are Currently Living Under Some Type of Heat Warning

    50 Million Americans Are Currently Living Under Some Type of Heat Warning

    A dangerous heat wave is expected to boil much of the Central and Eastern U.S. beginning Wednesday, The Washington Post reported. Major cities including Chicago, St. Louis, Washington DC, Nashville, Kansas City, Missouri, Philadelphia and New York could see temperatures soar between 95 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit for at least three days. It will be […]

    550,000 Acres on Fire in Alaska in Latest Sign of the Climate Crisis

    550,000 Acres on Fire in Alaska in Latest Sign of the Climate Crisis

    Two small communities near Anderson, Alaska were ordered to evacuate late Thursday due to a wildfire, as the state’s summer of heat and smoke continues. The Kobe Fire was reported at 6:45 p.m. Thursday and by 10:50 p.m. had grown to 600 acres, The Alaska Division of Forestry reported. There are no reports that anyone […]

    The Climate Crisis Is Now Cooking Mussels in Their Shells

    The Climate Crisis Is Now Cooking Mussels in Their Shells

    An early June heat wave cooked the mussels of Northern California’s Bodega Head in their shells, causing the largest die-off of the foundational species in the area in 15 years, The Guardian reported Saturday. The carnage was first observed by Bodega Marine Reserve research coordinator Jackie Sones, who said she had never seen such a […]

    Police Tear-Gas Climate Activists in Paris on ‘Hottest Day in History of France’

    Police Tear-Gas Climate Activists in Paris on ‘Hottest Day in History of France’

    By Andrea Germanos French riot police tear-gassed climate protesters in Paris on Friday as the county sweltered under record heat. Activists with Extinction Rebellion (XR) were occupying a bridge over the Seine to demand the French government declare a climate emergency and take necessary action to avert planetary catastrophe. “We need to civilly disrupt because, […]