July 25, 2019
Stories tagged "heat wave"
July 21, 2019
Not Beating the Heat: Fires Across Arctic, Global Extremes in June
The U.S. heatwave over the weekend (and it was hot — New York and Boston both set high temp records on Saturday) overshadowed some disturbing new photos that emerged late last week of vast fires in Siberia due to dried out swaths of peatland (aka bogs or swamps)...July 14, 2019
Alaska Burns Due to Vicious Heat Wave
By Alexandra Patel Extreme temperatures in Alaska are causing an outbreak of explosive wildfires throughout the state, with Fairbanks, Anchorage experiencing its warmest March to date, as reported recently by Our Daily Planet. Just in the week of July 3rd, more than...July 7, 2019
Alaska Shatters High Temp Records
On Independence Day, Anchorage, Alaska hit its highest temperature in recorded history — 90 degrees — by five degrees and beat the previous high for the 4th of July by more than twenty degrees, as records were broken all around the state. However, other...June 11, 2019
Acting on Climate (Literally) Will Save Lives, It’s Science!
According to a new study in the journal Science Advances, meeting the Paris Climate Agreement’s goals of keeping the rise of global average temperatures to 1.5° C could substantially mitigate heat-related mortality in U.S. cities. This new study is one of the...June 7, 2019