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Topic: Heat wave

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - SEPTEMBER 06: A view of Beverly Hills seen from Elysian Park on September 6, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. This week's heat wave hits parts of Southern California with triple-digit temperatures. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

October heat wave sets records in West

Matthew Rozsa
A heat wave in Thailand in April 2024. (Chuchart Duangdaw / Getty Images)

We had our hottest summer ever — again

Matthew Rozsa
A billboard shows the current temperature over 100 degrees on June 05, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. According to the National Weather Service, Phoenix will experience record temperatures over 100 degrees as a pattern of high pressure builds over the region. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Heat deaths in Phoenix nearly doubled

Matthew Rozsa
Sun sets over the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) on May 8, 2024 in San Francisco, California, United States as the Bay Area is going to see this week its warmest temps since last October. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Lethal heat dome headed for Southwest

Matthew Rozsa
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Residents clean up after destructive tornado on May 23, 2024, in Greenfield, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Tornadoes leave 20 dead in U.S. South

Andrew O'Hehir
Children are crossing a dried-up lake at Boklung near Kathiatoli in Nagaon District, Assam, India, on April 13, 2024. (Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Summer could be even hotter than 2023

Matthew Rozsa
Curious seal on an ice floe (Getty Images/Cavan Images)

Climate change fuels Antarctic heat wave

Matthew Rozsa
Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price under extreme heat

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
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'The London Bathing Season,' from Punch, or the London Charivari, June 18, 1859. (The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Climate change could make a Great Stink

Matthew Rozsa
Dry soil of the partially dried-up river bed of the Rhine is pictured in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on July 25, 2022, as Europe experiences a heatwave. (INA FASSBENDER/AFP via Getty Images)

European 2022 heat wave killed 61,000

Nicole Karlis
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol on June 08, 2023 in Austin, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Texas "Death Star" bill under scrutiny

Tatyana Tandanpolie
The Toronto skyline is seen covered by smoke from the CN Tower as wildfires in northeastern Ontario and Quebec continue to burn, in Toronto, Canada on June 28, 2023. (Arif Balkan/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate change causing wildfires

Matthew Rozsa
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The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Heat this summer will cost $1 billion

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Farmer harvesting grapes on sunny day (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

A preview of farmworkers’ hot future

Anne Marshall-Chalmers - Civil Eats
Sunny sky (Getty Images/Roman Studio)

With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
View of the forest fire in the Czech National Park Bohemian Switzerland in Hrensko near the border with Saxony, on 26 July 2022 (Robert Michael/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Summer 2022: The climate tipping point?

Anthony DiMaggio
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View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Lessons from the hottest city in America

Julia Kane - Grist
Doughnuts (Getty Images/Lydia Whitmore)

Restaurant workers are still essential

Ashlie D. Stevens
Flames rise near homes during the Blue Ridge Fire on October 27, 2020 in Chino Hills, California. Strong Santa Ana Winds gusting to more than 90 miles per hour have driven the Blue Ridge Fire and Silverado Fire across thousands of acres, grounding firefighting aircraft, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee, and gravely injuring two firefighters. More than 8,200 wildfires have burned across a record 4 million-plus acres so far this year, more than double the previous record. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Scientists urge US to skip the fireworks

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change and the PNW heat wave

Shannon Osaka - Grist
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The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

West faces drought, "climate emergency"

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
Pike Electric service trucks line up after a snow storm on February 16, 2021 in Fort Worth, Texas. Winter storm Uri has brought historic cold weather and power outages to Texas as storms have swept across 26 states with a mix of freezing temperatures and precipitation. (Ron Jenkins/Getty Images)

Power outages across the Plains

Michael E. Webber - The Conversation

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Record high temperatures were recorded across Western Europe on Thursday. (Copernicus Emergency Management Service)

Record heat wave in Europe "not normal"

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams
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