The Chinese government announced the southwestern city of Chengdu, provincial capital of Sichuan with a population of 21 million, will be under coronavirus lockdown from Thursday evening at 6:00 p.m.
Officials at New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reportedly sent out a warning to colleagues this week ahead of a heat wave hitting the Big Apple Thursday and Friday, warning that “structural racism” and its implications increase the risk of heat stress for black New Yorkers.
A Swiss scholarly website published a study that claims heat waves are caused by humans and racist because certain people are hurt most.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom suspended several environmental quality regulations on Friday to allow fossil fuel power plants to produce more electricity as the state feared blackouts due to an ongoing heat wave.
A wildfire consumed an entire village in the Canadian province of British Columbia on Thursday after the small town recorded Canada’s highest-ever temperature of 121.2º Fahrenheit earlier this week, the Vancouver Sun reported on Friday.
The Department of Energy announced on Sunday it will use its authority to intervene in the management of the California power grid after a heat wave failure.
The feds recommend keeping thermostat settings at sweltering levels as summer temperatures soar — 78 degrees during the day and 82 at night.
The chief architect of Notre Dame in Paris said he is concerned that the ongoing heatwave in Europe could risk the structural integrity of the fire-damaged cathedral.
A Massachusetts police department is asking potential criminals to forgo committing any crimes until a heatwave has passed.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) one of the largest and most vocal animal rights activist groups in the country, is urging officials at a New Jersey horse racing track to cancel their upcoming races due to the heat wave that has hit the east coast.
The National Weather Service has issued a warning about a massive heat wave that will tip the United States out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Armed Islamists stormed a heatstroke center in Pakistan Thursday and forced them to shut down for allegedly violating fasting hours during the ongoing month of Ramadan, the holiest period for Muslims.
Europe’s scorching heatwave has been manna from heaven for all the alarmists pushing the man-made climate doom narrative.
Gosh I’m enjoying this lovely sunny weather we’ve been having. Aren’t you?
“Climate change is a greater threat to the UK than EU directives, terrorism or a foreign power invading,” wrote climate alarmist Simon Lewis in Friday’s issue of the Guardian newspaper.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on Southern California’s heat wave .
Fifty people have died from heat-wave related causes in Quebec, Canada, provincial officials said Friday.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Evidence is piling up that this year’s sizzling summer in central and southeastern Europe has decimated crops, drained rivers and hurt the animal world.
As heat waves move across the U.S. from the northeast to the southwest and in much of western Europe, climate alarmists are responding predictably by blaming hot temperatures not on true meteorological causes but on the nebulous bogeyman of “climate change.”
Highway 101 is closed between Mendocino and Humboldt counties, after a second landslide cut the road through at least Friday, according to Caltrans.
Three bears — a mother and her two cubs — were filmed taking a dip in the waters of Pope Beach in South Lake Tahoe on Monday as beachgoers stood to the sidelines and watched the unfazed trio cool off from the summer heat.
Britain is currently in the midst of a heatwave with temperatures as high as 34 degrees C (that’s 94 degrees in old money – fahrenheit).
Two fires broke out on Monday near Los Angeles in the midst of sweltering heat on the first day of summer, forcing local residents to evacuate and sending billowing clouds of grey smoke into the clear blue skies above the city.
TEL AVIV – Temperatures in Israel reached a scorching 47ºC (116.6 ºF) over the weekend, resulting in over 450 people being treated by paramedics and brush fires sweeping the country.
California had been hoping that by this time of year, rains from a record-strength Pacific El Niño would bolster state water supplies and help it recover from a devastating, four-year-long drought.
Some cities in Southern California saw daily temperature records broken this week as an unusual heat wave interrupted what has been an El Niño-fueled rainy, cold winter in the region.
Despite worries about anger from their neighbors for perceived excess water use during the drought, suburban backyard pools use 13 percent less water than mowed grass.
A scorching summer heat wave resulted in the early closure of all eight schools in the Bay Area’s Campbell Union High School District on Wednesday and Thursday.
A group of Israelis visiting the site of Auschwitz death camp have slammed as “distasteful” and “offensive” the decision to install mist-spray showers near the entrance to the museum. But managers of the memorial site have defended their decision, explaining
Despite repeated threats, local police seem powerless to stop tourists from taking a plunge into Roman fountains in one of Rome’s hottest summers on record.
A city ordinance banning the use of horses to pull the traditional carriages around Rome went into effect Thursday, in response to a wave of 100+ degree weather that is said to threaten the horses’s lives.
Yesterday’s record-breaking heatwave in Southern England was a certain sign of End Times – as the BBC acknowledged on Newsnight by wheeling on a climate scientist to explain how totally doomed we all are thanks to our selfishness, greed and
Britain is enjoying a spectacular heatwave and I don’t know about the rest of you but I have been enjoying it immensely. I love the sunshine. I love the way it fries your brain so it feels like you’ve been
