The British Columbia government has declared a state of emergency to support the provincewide response to the ongoing wildfire situation.

Eight places in Portugal broke local temperature records Friday as a wave of heat from North Africa swept across the Iberian peninsula — and officials predicted the scorching temperatures could get even worse over the weekend.

Nearly 4,000 dead fish were counted on Sanibel area beaches and parks.

A local firefighter who was killed fighting a fast-moving wildfire was identified Friday as crews continued to battle the blaze in Redding, California.

Vegetable prices are rising rapidly in Japan after a deadly heatwave saw highs of more than 40C. Record-breaking temperatures triggered a spike in the cost of some foods with increases of up to 65 per cent.  An agriculture ministry official in Tokyo warned about "pretty severe price moves" for vegetables if predictions of more weeks of hot weather held up, resulting in less rain than usual.

Algae blooms have infiltrated much of the Cape Coral canal system, creating a foul odor and a green, spray-paint tint to some of the water.

Seniors, children and people with chronic health issues are advised to stay indoors and use air conditioning where possible.

They've forced evacuations of popular beach towns just outside the city.

Grass and forest fires are proving difficult to contain in Finnish Lapland, and now several fires on the Russian side of the border are moving into Finland.

Locals in north of Yakutia said daylight was completely gone for several hours. After the sun returned, locals found thick layer of dust covering everything outside.

Doctors urge ministers to act as 1,320 killed by asthma in England and Wales last year

New report suggests 53 deaths in Montreal alone are linked to elevated temperatures in early July.

The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada's High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely.

More than a billion people are at risk from a lack of air conditioning and refrigeration to keep them cool and to preserve food and medicines as global warming brings more high temperatures, a study showed on Monday.

The southwest region of France was hit on Wednesday by violent hailstorms, damaging roofs, cars and killing one person.

Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.

A mere 71 hours of sunshine were recorded in the capital last month.

A Canadian climate scientist says Canada and the world are seeing a pattern of more extreme weather events

Nearly 80 million people in the United States remained under a heat advisory or warning Tuesday, with scorching temperatures and humidity expected through the Fourth of July.

Quriyat, Oman just blasted past a 24-hour minimum-temperature record, beating the previous "highest low," which was also set in Oman.