As global temperatures continue to rise, similar extreme heat waves in February could occur once every 10 years, according to ...

A team of Earth scientists, marine biologists, oceanologists and climate change specialists affiliated with multiple ...

An increase in marine heatwaves over the past two years caused billions of dollars of damage around the world and despite ...

Increasingly, people around the world are being forced to deal with ... such as flooding and heat waves. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that if the global average ...

SAO PAULO — Five cities in southern Brazil suspended classes Thursday due to a heat wave, authorities said, as temperatures in some places rose as high as 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit).

After a heat wave killed more than 1,300 people in 2010 ... which modeled wet-bulb globe temperatures around the world. The vegetation map shows the normalized difference vegetation index ...

Consequently, people living in urban areas may be at greater risk from the effects of a prolonged heat wave than those living in rural areas. Asphalt and concrete also store heat longer and ...

Japan is in the grip of a blistering heat wave. With the use of air conditioning ... Chubu Electric added hydroelectric power at around 2 p.m. Around 3 p.m., it activated one more hydropower ...