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Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2022

Climate change made deadly U.K. heat wave at least 10 times likelier

More than 840 people may have died in England and Wales during the extreme heat, according to a preliminary analysis.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 19, 2022

Why Europe is becoming a heat wave hot spot

Heat waves in Europe are increasing in frequency and intensity at a faster rate than almost any other part of the planet, including the Western United States.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 15, 2022

What it’s like to live through India’s nonstop heat wave

Extreme heat has afflicted India since March, where temperatures in a region home to over 1 billion people broke a 122-year record.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 1, 2021

Deaths surge in U.S. and Canada from worst heat wave on record

The worst of the heat had passed by Wednesday, but the state of Oregon reported 63 deaths linked to the heat wave.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 12, 2021

Like in ‘postapocalyptic movies’: Heat wave killed marine wildlife en masse

Heat has killed hundreds of millions of marine animals and continues to threaten untold species in freshwater, according to a preliminary estimate and interviews with scientists.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 27, 2023

India’s June heat wave deaths are a harbinger of worse to come

The numerous anecdotal reports of a spike in deaths among the most vulnerable in society have heightened concerns about both central and local government preparations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 16, 2022

Scorching summer heat wave throws Britain into more chaos

Britain issued its most severe warning for next week, with temperatures set to rise above 35 degrees in parts of England and possibly threatening national records exceeding 40 degrees.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 5, 2020

Heat wave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives

Giving heat waves names and strength ratings, as is done with typhoons and hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
May 20, 2022

India's power grid creaks under hybrid work model and heat wave

The country has traditionally seen peak demand late in the evening when people head back home but that has shifted to mid-afternoon when temperatures are hottest.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2020

As cities bake on a warming planet, insurers cook up heat wave cover

Longer and hotter heat waves driven by climate change are becoming an increasingly dangerous — and costly — menace.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 28, 2023

‘It’s dangerous’: Heat wave spreads from Texas to bake the southeast

More than 55 million people in the United States were under some form of heat advisory, watch or warning on Tuesday, according to estimates
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 14, 2022

Scorching heat wave sparks wildfires in Europe

Firefighters have battled numerous blazes raging across Portugal and western Spain, with the fires menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid an intense heat wave.
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2018

Protect the socially weak from heat waves

The nation must do more to protect its growing elderly population against the perils of extreme weather.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 2, 2023

An early heat wave upsets the rhythm of life in the southern U.S.

Climate change and rising temperatures make medical and homemade remedies crucial for the preservation of both livelihoods and summer traditions.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 19, 2022

Europe burns as heat wave breaks temperature records

Expectations are now high that the current British record of 38.7 C could be broken and 40 C breached for the first time, with experts blaming climate change.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2022

Heat wave fee for Asia's gig workers does little to cool climate stress

Riders and drivers are dealing with extreme weather, as they often work long hours, waiting at street corners and outside restaurants for orders.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 25, 2022

Europe's heat wave may have caused more than 20,000 'excess' deaths

Temperatures hit nearly 40 degrees Celsius or above from Paris to London in summer this year.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Aug 1, 2018

Heat wave deaths in Japan could jump 170 percent by 2080, spike far higher in other countries: study

As Japan struggles with a deadly heat wave — which killed 96 people in Tokyo's 23 wards in July, four times the figure last year — a study published Tuesday indicated that the country could see an increase in heat-related deaths of more than 170 percent by 2080 in one possible scenario.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 20, 2018

In Tokyo, inventors showcase new creations that offer relief from sweltering heat

A jacket with built-in fans, a road coating that reins in heat, and factory mist sprayers were on offer at a three-day trade fair in Tokyo that wrapped up Friday as the capital struggles with record heat two years before it hosts the Summer Olympics.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 2, 2014

Hot in the city: scorching Kumagaya

Exploring new ways of dealing with the heat from a city in Saitama that certainly knows a thing or two about keeping cool
A member of the Self-Defense Forces wipes away sweat as he conducts a search and rescue operation at a landslide site caused by heavy rain in Kumano, Hiroshima Prefecture, on July 11, 2018.
ENVIRONMENT / Boiling Point
Aug 29, 2024

Can Japan handle a heat wave and natural disaster at the same time?

Recent typhoons and the Nankai Trough megaquake alert have put the spotlight on how the country would deal with a dual disaster.
A Kayah woman and children carrying containers from a delivery of drinking water in Myanmar's eastern Kayah state.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 3, 2024

'Fuel for water?' Heat wave piles misery on Myanmar displaced

A heat wave that has sent the mercury in Myanmar to 48 degrees Celsius in some places has added to uncertainties of life in the camps.
Local residents rush to get cold water at an ice factory in Jacobabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday. It is yet another brutal summer in the age of climate change, in a part of the world that is among the most vulnerable to its dire effects.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Jun 1, 2024

A matter of survival as South Asia’s heat wave reaches 52 degrees

It is yet another brutal summer in the age of climate change, in a part of the world that is among the most vulnerable to its dire effects.
A landscape worker from Mexico takes a break during a heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 27. A thermal camera registered surface temperatures of 40 degrees Celsius, with an air temperature of 42 C.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Aug 8, 2023

Thermal camera captures record heat wave scorching Phoenix

The southwestern U.S. city has shattered its 1974 heat-wave record with temperatures above 43 degrees Celsius for 31 straight days.
A New South Wales firetruck at a hazard reduction burn site in Sydney in September
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 16, 2023

Australia swelters through heat wave amid 'extreme' fire danger

Heat wave alerts were in place for parts of Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory.
The Paris Organising Committee's headquarters
OLYMPICS
Jul 19, 2023

As heat wave bakes Europe, Paris keeps eye on weather models for Olympics

A contingency plan was in place to adjust schedules but there were no plans to change any locations of events, a spokesperson for Paris 2024 said.

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