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International

Hong Kong logs record number of ‘very hot’ October days

Thanks to artist Jonas Griessler collective’s artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colours, the ground temperature has dropped from 31 to 20 deg C.
Lifestyle

Keeping cool with colours, Vienna museum paints asphalt to fight heat

Heat threatens human life, as well as stressing electric grids and transportation networks.
International

More than 132 million face wilting heat across eastern US

Extreme heat also threatens to wither crops and shrivel rivers, raising food prices as the cost of goods and services remains elevated.
Global Enterprise

Highways baking at 70 deg C signal a red-hot summer from China to the US

China describes itself as one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries.
Lifestyle

China’s coastal water temperatures hit record high in 2024

Current pledges and policies are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 or even two deg C above the pre-industrial average, according to the UN.
International

Global temperature set to surpass 1.5 deg C threshold in hottest year on record

Without the algae, the coral becomes pale and vulnerable to starvation, disease or death.
Lifestyle

Coral bleachings devastate Bali reefs as sea temperatures rise

(FILES) People walk under an umbrella to shelter from the sun during a heatwave in Yangon on April 2, 2024. Myanmar recorded its hottest ever April temperature of 48.2 degrees Celsius (118.76 Fahrenheit), its weather department said on April 29, 2024, as the Southeast Asian nation bakes in a heatwave. (Photo by Sai Aung MAIN / AFP)
International

Myanmar records hottest ever April temperature of 48.2 deg C

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