About 50 million people in the United States were under heat warnings or advisories over the weekend. The heat index was forecast to soar past 100 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday in about half of Texas.
Coal miners in Indonesia have been shirking their obligation to allocate 25% of their output for the domestic market, leading to a critical shortage of the fossil fuel for power generation.
Turtles along the Texas Gulf Coast have been "cold stunned" by the winter storm affecting the region, washing up comatose on the shore of South Padre Island in a kind of hypothermic shock.
