After weeks of shivering in the cold, people across Karnataka are now feeling the heat as temperatures continue to rise. In ...

Scorching heat in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has millions of people sweltering during the day, but they’re finding some relief ...

Some Indian cities are taking action. After a heat wave killed more than 1,300 people in 2010, Ahmedabad developed one of the country’s first heat emergency plans, which stresses an early ...

Tens of thousands of fish have died off northwestern Australia, as a large and long-lasting marine heat wave intensifies.

Consequently, people living in urban areas may be at greater risk from the effects of a prolonged heat wave than those living in rural areas. Asphalt and concrete also store heat longer and ...

Human-caused climate change made this record-breaking heat wave at least 30 times more likely, according to modelers at the World Weather Attribution initiative. About 50 people died in Jacobabad ...

The Black Friday bushfires which swept across southeastern Australia in January 1939 have been remembered as a deadly and traumatic event. Most human deaths, however, occurred during the preceding ...

BEIJING--China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people in the south and a heat wave prompting fears of a ...