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Life and death in the heat. How it feels when Earth’s temperatures reach record levels

BENI MELLAL, Morocco (AP) — In the relentless heat of Morocco’s Middle Atlas, people were sleeping in attics. Hanna Ouhbour needed shelter, too, but she was outside the hospital waiting for her cousin, a diabetic, in a room with no air conditioning. There were 21 heat-related deaths on Wednesday as temperatures rose to 48.3 degrees… Read More »