Heat
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US
As Trump Rallies in the Southwest, Extreme Heat Threatens MAGA Faithful
Political campaigns do their best to control as much as possible: their candidate, their messaging, their surrogates and their schedules. But what to do about the weather? This week, with former President Donald J. Trump holding campaign events in ...
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News
The Climate Challenges That India’s Next Government Will Face
Farmers have repeatedly protested over grievances tied to global warming, a major political and economic test given the importance of India’s rural economy.
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Newyork
How a Heat Wave Could Become a Catastrophe
On a recent Thursday evening, a freakish windstorm called a derecho (Spanish for “straight ahead”) hit Houston, a city of more than two million people that also happens to be the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry in America. In a matter of ...
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World
A Matter of Survival as South Asia’s Heat Wave Reaches 127 Degrees
Pakistan and India are sweltering. For the many laborers who can’t afford to miss a day’s pay, “It’s a choice between working and collapsing from the heat.”
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World
126 Degrees: New Delhi Sweats Through Its Hottest Recorded Day
For weeks now, temperatures in several states in northern India have been well over 110, and hospitals have been reporting a rise in heatstroke.
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World
Here It Comes: Another Hot Summer in Europe
Extreme heat and other weather challenges are in the forecast this summer, and travel advisers, tourists and local officials are getting prepared.
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World
Philippines Closes Schools as Heat Soars to ‘Danger’ Level
Scorching temperatures coincided with a nationwide strike of jeepneys, the main mode of public transport in the country.
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World
Heat Wave Strains Pharmacist’s Ability to Get Crucial Medicine to Gazans
A heat wave in the Gaza Strip this week, with temperatures soaring above 100 degrees Fahrenheit the past few days, has not only made life intolerable for the hundreds of thousands of displaced people trying to rebuild their lives in tent cities but ...
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News
Heat-Related E.R. Visits Rose in 2023, C.D.C. Study Finds
The News The rate of emergency room visits caused by heat illness increased significantly last year in large swaths of the country compared with the previous five years, according to a study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control ...
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Newyork
We Don’t See What Climate Change Is Doing to Us
Many of us realize climate change is a threat to our well being. But what we have not yet grasped is that the devastation wreaked by climate change is often just as much about headline-grabbing catastrophes as it is about the subtler accumulation of ...