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The study cites the example of the town of Lytton, where a national temperature record of 49.6 C was set on the day before a fast-moving wildfire destroyed…
The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows.
Science Advances found just five other heat waves since the 1960s were more extreme
The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows.
The science is out and unequivocally clear: Climate change is a threat to human well-being and the health of the planet. In the last decade, urban infrastructure and activities caused about two-thirds of today's greenhouse gas emissions — and while cities continue to be a big driver of emissions, one urban climate expert says that they too need to be critical pieces of our