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DENVER: As Denver neared triple-digit temperatures, Ben Gallegos sat shirtless on his porch swatting flies off his legs and spritzing himself with a misting fan to try to get through the heat. Gallegos, like many in the nation’s poorest…

<!-- -->Last year's UK heatwave resulted in excessive deaths, wildfires, and the destruction of homes.London: The extreme heat experienced by the UK in 2022 will become more frequent and intense because of climate change, Britain's…

Last Updated: July 28, 2023, 09:31 ISTWorkers work near the venue of G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting at Gandhinagar in Gujarat, India July 13, 2023. (Reuters File Photo)Environment ministers from G20 nations meet in…

UN and EU monitors said Thursday that July is set to be the hottest month in recorded history and likely "unprecedented" for thousands of years, warning that this was a taste of the world's climate future.…

CHICAGO: An intensifying heatwave descended on the eastern United States on Thursday, prompting warnings about the dangers presented by the sweltering heat and humidity in the final days of a record-smashing July around the world.Some 180…

LONDON: The extreme heat experienced by the UK in 2022 will become more frequent and intense because of climate change, Britain's Meteorological Office warned in a new study released Thursday (Jul 27). The country crossed the 40 degrees…

A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed killing two airmen on Tuesday, as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave and Algeria battled to control an inferno in which at least 34 people…

Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have swept across North America, Europe and China this month, according to an assessment by scientists published on…

HOW HEAT AFFECTS AN AGEING BODY The human body has two main mechanisms to cool itself: Sweating and increasing blood flow to the skin. In older adults, those processes are compromised – they sweat less and they have poor circulation…

Wildfires raging across Algeria during a blistering heatwave have killed more than 30 people and forced mass evacuations, the government said on Monday. Issued on: 24/07/2023 - 22:16 3 min…