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Extreem hoge temperaturen teisteren Noord-Amerika en ook China. In de VS en Canada is sprake van een heat dome of hittekoepel, terwijl Peking een van de warmste dagen van het jaar meemaakt. De overheden hebben waarschuwingen uitgestuurd om zoveel mogelijk binnen te blijven en grote inspanningen te vermijden.

Extreme heat affecting nearly 23m people across US south-west and pushing Texas’s electrical grid to the limit.

A new climate case was filed this week. Multnomah County, the Oregon county that includes Portland, filed suit against several oil majors for their role in exacerbating the climate change that led to the county's "heat dome" in June 2021, which killed 69 people. But the case doesn't just place

More than 1 billion marine animals along Canada’s Pacific coast are likely to have died from last week’s record heatwave, experts warn, highlighting the vulnerability of ecosystems unaccustomed to extreme temperatures.