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Resilience
climate change & heat waves
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U.S., European heat waves wouldn’t happen without climate change, study says

The analysis by the World Weather Attribution network came with a sobering reminder: Once unfathomable heat waves are not only happening, but becoming more common.
Resilience
rising temperatures impact billions
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How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

Under current climate policies, billions will face deadly heat, with the elderly, children, women and people with disabilities hit worst. A global network of heat officers are tackling the problem in their own cities.
Impacts
June’s deadly heat dome
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Inside June’s deadly heat dome. And surviving the next one

Hundreds succumbed to scorching temperatures. Why was BC’s toll so much higher than Washington and Oregon? A Tyee special report.
Newsletter
Days of hot weather grip Southern Europe, North Africa
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Days of hot weather grip Southern Europe, North Africa

Stifling heat kept its grip on much of Southern Europe on Thursday, driving people indoors, spoiling crops, triggering drinking water restrictions, turning public libraries into cooling “climate shelters" and complicating the challenge firefighters faced battling wildfires .

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Pacific Northwest bakes in record-setting heat wave
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Pacific Northwest bakes in record-setting heat wave

It reached 115 degrees in Portland, Ore., on Monday, the second day in a row that the city has broken a heat record. Salem, Ore., and Seattle also set records.
Impacts
What is a heat dome? Deadly hot weather descends on Pacific Northwest

What is a heat dome? Deadly hot weather descends on Pacific Northwest

Thirteen million people in the Pacific Northwest just experienced an historic heat wave.

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Pacific Northwest bakes in record-setting heat wave
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Pacific Northwest bakes in record-setting heat wave

It reached 112 degrees at Portland International Airport in Oregon on Sunday. It was the highest temperature recorded there since historical records began in 1940, forecasters said.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Veterans are diving back in—this time to protect coral reefs and sea turtles

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Zeppelins might be slow, but their comeback could move the needle on green aviation

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Texas pushes fracking wastewater reuse, raising fears over liability and pollution

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Congress proposes major reforms to FEMA in bid to counter Trump cuts

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How fragile power grids and extreme weather combined to cause Europe’s biggest blackout in decades

Regenerative agriculture drought resilience

As regenerative agriculture gains momentum, report warns of “greenwashing”

CLIMATE
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States press Big Oil to pay for climate damage as legal battles mount

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Trump halts enforcement of key regulations, triggering legal concerns