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.
The first heat wave of the season went out with a bang across the province
Wildfire smoke visible in Unalakleet.
Each state was warmer than average, record precipitation in the East
A tundra fire that has grown to 2,000 acres as of Monday afternoon is burning near Point Hope, officials say.
As of Tuesday, two new fires had started in the Galena Zone, bringing the total number of fires in the area to 35. To date this year, wildland fires have burned more than 44,000 acres in the region.
Clearwater, Golden, Williams Lake, Malahat a few of the cities that broke records Wednesday
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