heat waves
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Climate action could avert hundreds of heat-related deaths in these 15 U.S. cities
You might want to pay attention, Miami.
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Get ready for more back-to-back heat waves, study says
Thanks to climate change, new heat waves are arriving before communities have recovered from the last one.
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New York’s hottest neighborhoods are taking on climate change’s deadliest threat
Extreme heat kills more than a hundred New Yorkers yearly. Here's how the city's tackling the problem in a warming world.
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The best way to fight climate change? Don’t call it climate change.
U.S. cities are getting hammered by climate change. What are they doing about it?
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Extreme heat is exhausting and expensive
Broiling-hot summer days could cost global economies $2 trillion by 2030.
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Scientists may have found a way to predict heat waves — 50 days in advance
A new study may have found a way to predict extreme heat in the eastern U.S.
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Heartland adviser: Heat waves only kill people who were basically dead already
The Guardian’s Suzanne Goldenberg is actually braving the Heartland Institute conference this week. And it’s totally worth it, because she’s coming out with quotes of horrifying callousness, like this one, from Heartland policy adviser John Dunn: “Warm is good for people, and it’s particularly good for people as they get older,” said Dunn. “The people […]
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U.K. plants think it's spring again
Anyone who was sighing "Oh, to be in England, now that spring is here" back in April get another shot now. The weather has been so unseasonably warm that flowers are starting a second blooming season. Robert Browning would be psyched.
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It's time to shed more light on solar's potential
As journalists cover record spikes in electricity demand, why are they ignoring solar photovoltaics?