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“Here’s why race justice and climate justice are one & the same: The oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize and kill black bodies and colonize and kill our planet are one and the same.”

Wind was running at 8% at the time, but has dropped since then:

The headlines have been truly apoplectic, and absolutely wrong.

Just as a few frigid days in winter are now known as a “snow event” and winter gales come with names attached, so the arrival of high summer is greeted as a life-threatening episode.

Outdoor events – including, ironically, annual ‘Resistance’ celebrations – are banned until the officials declare the heatwave is over. They’re even restricting some indoor events that don’t have air conditioning.

If global warming increases by two more degrees Celsius, the death rate from extreme temperatures will increase significantly, according to a terrifying new study...

President Biden has directed labor officials to draft laws that will protect workers under extreme heat conditions. The directive comes months after a hot summer, in which several workers were reported dead due to extreme...

In the latest extreme weather news, Europe has set a new record high temperature. Sicily hit 48.8 degrees Celsius this week, or 119.85 Fahrenheit, according to a reading at a Syracuse, Sicily monitoring station.[...]

A failure that misinformed you and millions of others, and a failure that highlighted glaring weaknesses in the media's ability to cover important scientific issues...

Reposted from the Cliff Mass Weather Blog New Podcast: Global Warming and the Northwest Heatwave, Plus the Weekend Forecast The severe heatwave this week has been on everyone’s mind, for…

Last year was the hottest year ever recorded on Earth, according to an analysis done by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The study shows that the year tied with 2016, making this decade the hottest...

On Sunday, August 16, the U.S. National Weather Service recorded the highest temperature reading ever on Earth in Death Valley, California. High temperatures in Death Valley are the norm, but the new high beats previous temperature...

Rising ocean temperatures are rising in the northeast Pacific, similar to conditions presented in 2015. It is safe to say the marine heatwave known as the "Blob" has returned. This time the Blob's 2019 return is the second...

An unusual heatwave sent droves of Californians to the beach, where they were met with hundreds of unfamiliar beach-goers – cooked mussels. Consecutive days of high temperatures caused a widespread die-off of mussels along...

It is no surprise that the world's most populous country, China, is also the largest polluter on Earth. However, for individuals living in China's northern plain, the most densely populated region on the planet, it may come...