heat

Extreme heat: How does it affect medicines and those taking them?

The world just experienced the hottest day on record and prolonged heat waves have become… Read More

Beating the Heat: How Air Conditioning Works

Imagine a scorching summer day. The sun is relentless, and your house feels like an… Read More

Rain brings relief from scorching heat in Karachi

KARACHI: Karachi residents finally got a reprieve from the intense heatwave as rain showers lashed… Read More

How US industries deal with extreme heat

Extreme heat has companies in the United States changing the way they work. One frequent… Read More

Kuwait announces power cuts

Kuwait has announced temporary power cuts in some parts of the country during peak consumption… Read More

Heat, disease, air pollution: How climate change impacts health

Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global… Read More

This year ‘virtually certain’ to be warmest in 125,000 years

This year is "virtually certain" to be the warmest in 125,000 years, European Union scientists… Read More

Italy’s Milan records hottest day since 1763

Italy's northern city of Milan registered a new record high average daily temperature of 33… Read More

July 2023 set to be world’s hottest month on record

July 2023 is set to upend previous heat benchmarks, UN Secretary-general António Guterres said on… Read More

Ocean temperatures hit hot-tub levels

The surface ocean temperature in and around the Florida Keys soared to typical hot tub… Read More

Climate change role in July heatwaves ‘overwhelming’

Human-induced climate change has played an "absolutely overwhelming" role in the extreme heatwaves that have… Read More

Record-breaking heat bakes US, Europe, China

Summer has just begun in the Northern Hemisphere but a brutal heat wave is already… Read More

June was hottest June on record globally

This past June was the hottest June globally on record in terms of sea and… Read More

Climate nears point of no return as temperatures break records

The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving… Read More

From Pakistan to Texas, big rains after extreme heat deliver double punch

While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country's worst recorded floods, heavy rain… Read More

‘2021 was world’s fifth-hottest year on record’

Last year was the world's fifth hottest on record, while levels of planet-warming carbon dioxide… Read More

Blistering Karachi heat likely to reduce by Friday evening

KARACHI: The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has Friday said the city shall continue to experience… Read More

World is likely to hit 1.5C warming limit within 20 years

The United Nations panel on climate change told the world on Monday that global warming… Read More

Qatar strengthens heat stress protection for workers

New regulations issued on Wednesday, the latest in a series of labour reforms, extended a… Read More

Tokyo Olympic marathon to be moved to Hokkaido due to heat

The Olympic marathon and race walking events during Tokyo 2020 Games will be be moved… Read More