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People sit in a shallow pool of water in the riverbed of the Jialing River, a tributary of the Yangtze, in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. 
Climate Change
China endures ‘heat wave from hell’ with record-breaking temperatures
A construction worker walks across a mirage created on a road due to very hot weather in New Delhi, India
Environment
Heat wave sparks blackouts, questions on India’s coal usage
Farm workers wearing hats break up earth
Human rights
Farmworkers who face extreme heat fear retaliation or deportation if they complain, says nurse
A young girl is shown leaning up against a stone column spraying a stream of water.
Environment
Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
A sign the shape of a red stop sign warns of extreme heat danger at Badwater Basin with a couple taking a selfie in the distance.
Environment
The world’s getting hotter. Can naming heat waves raise awareness of the risks?
Adults and children swim in water near a large, white building in the background and birds flying overhead
The Big Fix
In Karachi, planting dense urban forests could save the city from extreme heat
Climate Change
How people are keeping cool amid record-breaking temperatures
The Polar jet stream carries weather systems around the northern hemisphere. It's powered by the temperature differential between the Arctic and areas farther south, but new research finds that it's being disrupted as rapid warming in the Arctic reduces t
Global Politics
Here’s a new climate change reality that Trump’s new policies ignore
Technology
Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?
Displaced person camp in Iraq
Environment
Displaced Iraqis struggle to stay cool during sweltering heat wave
Displaced person camp in Iraq
Environment
Displaced Iraqis struggle to stay cool during sweltering heat wave
Palm Springs resident Benito Almojuela takes a selfie near a thermometer sign which reads 125 degrees in Palm Springs, California, June 20, 2016.
Health
Will heat waves cause more deaths as the climate warms?
A Bagdad resident plunges into the Tigris river, sandals and all.
Environment
As Mideast temperatures soar, Iraqis lament the ‘fiery August, that burns the nails on the doors’
A passenger cools off a child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in the northern Indian city of Allahabad April 23, 2015.
Environment
Despite the extreme heat wave hitting India ‘you have to keep going’
Earth, Wind and Fire in Central Texas
Intense Drought Devastates Corn Crops
Top of the Hour: Heat Wave Devastates Nation, Morning Headlines
How to Keep Your Animals Cool in the Heatwave
Heat Waves Continue in the United States
Top of the Hour: Heat Wave Devastates US, Morning Headlines
Heat and Drought Pummel South and Southwestern US
Environment
Deadly heat waves expected in the midwest
As Heat Wave Hits U.S., Chicago Readies with 50-Year Forecast
The Living on Earth Almanac
Arts, Culture & Media
How a heat wave helped make a president
Environment
The Heat Is On in Seattle