#Heat wave

We are less than two weeks into Summer and we’ve already reached that point where I need to shower three times a day and change shirts every time I go outside. The ‘feels like’ temperature was in the 90s last night when I was walking my dog at 10:30 pm. This isn’t all that insane considering I live

Author: Jane Dalton / Source: The Independent Roads melted and doctors warned people about heat stress as Australia notched five of its 10 hottest days on record amid a searing heatwave. One town in New South Wales recorded a night-time low temperature of 35.9C – the highest minimum temperature

Author: Matthew Davis / Source: Big Think New research on beetles shows that successive exposure to heatwaves reduces male fertility, sometimes to the point of sterility. The research has implications both for how the insect population will sustain itself as well as how human fertility may work

Author: Carolyn Gramling / Source: Science News The world’s oceans are sweltering. Over the last century, marine heat waves have become more common and are lasting longer. New research suggests the annual number of days that some part of the ocean is experiencing a heat wave has increased 54

Author: Aimee Cunningham / Source: Science News Some victims were found at home. An 84-year-old woman who’d spent over half her life in the same Sacramento, Calif., apartment died near her front door, gripping her keys. A World War II veteran succumbed in his bedroom. Many died outside, including