Heatwaves

In 2020, Lowe Family Wine Company, a winery, vineyard and farm in Mudgee, NSW, lost their entire vintage to smoke from nearby bushfires. They started hosting weddings officially that same year, something Lachlan Garland, the company’s…

Receive free Climate change updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate changenews every morning. The heatwaves that hit North America and Europe in July would have been “virtually impossible…

Faced with the urgent task of safeguarding its residents against the deadly consequences of scorching heat, Paris finds itself at the forefront of the battle against soaring temperatures. Its population is the most at risk of…

Scorching weather gripped three continents on Sunday, whipping up wildfires and threatening to topple temperature records as the dire consequences of global warming take shape. Issued on: 17/07/2023 -…

Summer has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere but a brutal heat wave is already gripping parts of Europe, China and the United States, where record temperatures expected this weekend are a stark illustration of the dangers…

More than 61,000 people died due to the heat during Europe's record-breaking summer last year, a study said on Monday which called for more to be done to protect against even deadlier heatwaves expected in the coming years.…

A new study has highlighted under-prepared regions across the world most at risk of the devastating effects of scorching temperatures. The University of Bristol-led research, published today in Nature Communications, shows that…

French volunteers are using a pioneering Japanese tree-planting method to create pocket forests in Paris in the hope they will slow climate change, create biodiversity hotspots and tackle the growing number of heatwaves…

French President Emmanuel Macron was re-elected for a second term as Marine Le Pen’s far-right party made historic gains in parliamentary elections. Temperatures hit record highs, sparking devastating forest fires.…

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