But European cities appear to suffer more than cities in other rich regions even when peak temperatures are similar. Data from Kai Chen, of the Yale School of Public Health, and his colleagues shows ...

While dealing with a heatwave, people in Gaza are struggling to secure enough water for drinking and sanitation.

The extreme temperatures recorded in recent days confirm an increasingly worrying phenomenon: the multiplication and intensification of heatwaves in Europe, a direct effect of climate change, ...

The dangerous heat is the result of a large high-pressure system drawing in warm, dry air over the Continent, and it could ...