still being tallied. at number two, the pacific northwest heat dome, which pushed the mercury in famously mild portland well over 100 degrees for days, creating a mass casualty event of creatures great and small. over a billion shellfish baked to death on the shores of british columbia, and the little town of litton broke the canadian heat record three times in a week before most of it burned to the ground. and at number one, america's mega drought. your water can come from rivers, reservoirs, or from wells, all of which have been impacted by a 20-year mega drought fueled by the climate crisis. with 90% of the west starving for rain, the feds declared the first ever shortage of the colorado river, which is a s source of life for over 40 million americans. meantime smoke from western