by faster | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: July 29, 2020 SNIP: Record high temperatures have been plaguing the Middle East, the mercury soaring to extreme levels during a blistering and unforgiving heat wave. Baghdad surged to its highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday....
by faster | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: June 23, 2020 SNIP: An extended heat wave that has been baking the Russian Arctic for months drove the temperature in Verkhoyansk, Russia—north of the Arctic Circle—to 100.4°F on June 20, the official first day of summer in the...
by faster | Sep 5, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Seattle Times DATE: September 5, 2019 SNIP: A new marine heat wave has formed off the West Coast that is similar to “The Blob” that devastated sea life and ravaged runs of Pacific salmon. Although the similarities are striking, whether the new system will...
by faster | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Yale Environment 360 DATE: August 28, 2019 SNIP: Climate change is raising temperatures in Europe even faster than climate models projected, according to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The number of summer days with extreme...
by faster | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Cosmos DATE: August 7, 2019 SNIP: Two months ago, climate scientists studying US cities found that global warming could produce killer heat waves causing thousands of excess deaths during unusually hot summers like the one now affecting the eastern US and much...
