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Europe's scorching heat wave has killed nine people in a week in Spain, health authorities said Tuesday, as stifling temperatures kindled wildfires in the country and neighboring Portugal, where a ferocious blaze encircled a resort town. Weeks of nonstop sunshine and near-record temperatures have caused ...

California's deadly Carr wildfire — now the state's sixth-most destructive — has claimed another life with a power linesman killed on the job its seventh fatality, officials said Sunday. The Carr Fire, located some 200 miles (322 km) north of San Francisco, is still growing, ...

This year's heat wave is again lethal, having already killed over 30 people and sent more than 10,000 to hospitals since July 9 due to heat exhaustion and heatstroke. The extreme weather continued to scorch Japan this week, with many cities seeing their highest-ever recorded ...

The nation’s typically hot and humid summer has been a major concern for the games due to the risk athletes and spectators could suffer dehydration and heatstroke.

California firefighters battling several wildfires that have destroyed dozens of structures and forced thousands of residents to evacuate will get some relief as temperatures cool from scorching levels later this week, the National Weather Service said. "Starting Monday we're going to see a gradual cool ...

The death toll in a weeklong eastern Canadian heat wave has reached 54, officials said Friday. Most of the victims linked to the "overwhelming heat" were in the Montreal area, which recorded 28 fatalities, metropolitan health authorities said in an email. The other victims were reported ...

Firefighters in Northern California have partially contained a stubborn blaze that has forced hundreds of residents to evacuate areas west of Sacramento, although dry conditions and wind gusts are hampering efforts to stop the spread, authorities said on Wednesday. The National Weather Service said it ...

Six more people have died in Montreal due to a heat wave, bringing to 12 the city's total death toll from the extreme weather conditions that have gripped central and eastern Canada, health officials said on Wednesday. Montreal previously raised the city's response level to ...

Some 3,473 people across the country were hospitalized with heatstroke in the week to Sunday, a fivefold increase from the preceding week and a nearly 2.8-fold from the year before, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday. Three of those needing medical attention died. The ...

Japan is preparing measures to prevent heat-related health problems at the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, such as improved temperature forecasts and cooler roads paved with heat-resistant materials. Government agencies reported the measures during a meeting on June 7. Battling the heat ...

The risk of extreme weather such as heat waves, floods and drought will rise significantly even if the commitments in the 2015 Paris climate accord are met, a study warned on Wednesday. The report in the journal Science Advances analyzes the likelihood of hot spells, ...