Today: September 20, 2024
Today: September 20, 2024

Icy body bags and mobile coolers: Here’s what it takes now to survive outside in America’s hottest city

In the hottest big city in the US, where sunbaked concrete sprawls across bone-dry desert, Phoenix is setting records in both high temperatures and body count — and learning the hard way that it's not just the heat, it's the vulnerability.Julian Quinones/CNN via CNN Newsource

(CNN) — On some parts of an overheating Earth, the old complaint that “it’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” gets truer by the year.

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Ukraine’s energy supply faces ‘sternest test yet’ as war grinds toward third winter

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Upstream electrification can cut oil and gas production emissions by more than 80%, report says

Oil and gas production facilities could reduce associated emissions by more than 80% by switching to electricity generated from renewables or natural gas designated for burning, a report

Upstream electrification can cut oil and gas production emissions by more than 80%, report says
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Four Russian grain regions in state of emergency due to heavy rains

Russia's vast Krasnoyarsk region declared a state of emergency on Thursday due to heavy rains killing winter crops during sprouting time, bringing the total number of Siberian grain-

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Canada's 2023 emissions edged lower but progress slow, report says

Canada's carbon emissions declined slightly in 2023 from the previous year but need to fall much faster to meet Ottawa's 2030 climate target, the Canadian Climate Institute think-tank said

Canada's 2023 emissions edged lower but progress slow, report says
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Italy's Emilia-Romagna region hit by new floods as storm moves west

A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday for the second year in a row,

Italy's Emilia-Romagna region hit by new floods as storm moves west
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Dolphins dying again in Amazon lake made shallow by drought

Dolphins dying again in Amazon lake made shallow by drought
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World Bank climate finance reaches record $42.6 billion in fiscal 2024

World Bank climate finance reaches record $42.6 billion in fiscal 2024
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Flood-hit regions in Central Europe will get billions in EU aid

Flood-hit regions in Central Europe will get billions in EU aid
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Biden administration nears approval for ioneer's Nevada lithium mine

Biden administration nears approval for ioneer's Nevada lithium mine