On a 95-degree day this summer, New York City’s Third Avenue Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, remained open for hours. As heat and flooding scorched the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa to South Dakota collapsed under surging water. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge was closed after the pavement buckled from the… Read More »
LAS VEGAS — On a sun-scorched stretch of West Charleston Boulevard, Norm Schilling pulled his truck over to the side of the road to visit his favorite tree. Schilling, a local gardener who runs a landscaping company and owns a garden shop called Mojave Bloom Nursery, saved this African sumac decades after its branches froze… Read More »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Levena Lindahl closes all rooms during the summer months, covers windows with blackout curtains and budgets for air conditioning to manage the monthly cost of electricity. But heat still gets in. “Going up there is like walking into soup. It’s so hot,” Lindahl said. “If I walk past the attic upstairs, you… Read More »
By the first month of summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population had experienced at least one extreme heat wave, and millions of people were under heat warnings, with forecasts warning of more to come. In early July, Death Valley reached temperatures of 125 degrees Fahrenheit (51.7 Celsius) or higher for nine days.… Read More »
With less than a month until the start of summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has experienced an extreme heat wave. By early July, millions of people in the western U.S. were under heat warnings or sweating from humid heat in the East. Death Valley reached a dangerous 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53.9… Read More »
LAS VEGAS — Excitement is building in Sin City. Record temperatures over the past week have turned the Las Vegas Valley into a giant oven, forcing officials to close public pools and museums, herd people indoors for much of the day and make sidewalks hot enough to fry eggs. The Las Vegas Strip, usually packed… Read More »
With less than a month until the start of summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has experienced an extreme heat wave. By early July, millions of people in the western U.S. were under heat warnings or sweating from humid heat in the East. Death Valley reached a dangerous 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53.9… Read More »
With less than a month until the start of summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has experienced an extreme heat wave. By early July, millions of people in the western U.S. were under heat warnings or sweating from humid heat in the East. Death Valley reached a dangerous 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53.9… Read More »
For decades, the idea of walking the winding, thyme-scented paths of the sun-scorched Mediterranean islands has captivated Britons and those from Europe’s freezing north. But experts say large areas of Southern Europe have become closed to walking during the hottest months of summer due to rising temperatures caused by global warming. The dangers of extreme… Read More »
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.com. My parents said the planet was getting too hot for humans to live here. They called it climate change. What does this mean? – Joseph, age 12, Boise, Idaho Many… Read More »