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Pakistan heat wave eases more 1,150 die
2015-06-29 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Sea breezes brought lower temperatures on Friday to ease a heat wave that killed more than 1,150 people around Pakistan's teeming port city of Karachi during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Mass funerals were held for 50 unidentified victims on Friday before their bodies were hastily buried. The extreme heat of up to 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) - the hottest since 1981 - coincided with power failures and triggered sharp criticism of the government's response in the city of 20 million...
First big heat wave of the summer to grip Spain, France and UK
2015-06-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mashable: A heat wave is forecast to envelop much of continental Europe and the UK during the end of June into the first week of July, potentially setting records from Spain to England. Competitors in the famous Wimbledon tennis tournament, for example, may have trouble dealing with temperatures that may reach the low-to-mid 30s Celsius (up to the mid-90s Fahrenheit) in the London area by next week. The heat will first build across Iberia over the weekend, before spreading its tentacles into the UK for...
Heat wave kills more than 180 in Pakistan's southern Sindh
2015-06-23 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An intense heat wave over three days has killed more than 180 people in Pakistan's southern Sindh province, officials said on Monday, leading authorities to declare an emergency as the electricity grid crashed and bodies stacked up in the morgues. The outages hit large portions of Pakistan's financial heart of Karachi and home to 20 million people, where residents lit bonfires in protest. Unclaimed bodies were being rapidly buried to create space in the morgues, Anwar Kazmi, a senior official...
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Alaskas Heat Wave Ignites Fires as Glaciers Rapidly Melt
2015-06-19 15:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Climate change has caused Alaskas glaciers to melt so quickly that a one-foot thick layer of water could completely cover the entire state of Alaska every seven years, according to a new study. Alaskan glaciers have lost 75 billion metric tons of ice every year from 1994 through 2013, The Washington Post's Chris Mooney reported from the study, which was recently accepted for publication in the peer-reviewed Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. Mooney also reported...
Insane Heat Wave in Alaska Put Temperatures Higher Than in Arizona
2015-06-05 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, has been warming even faster than other regions of the world due to climate change. That was the findings of a report this spring from the Department of Energys Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, which found that the rate of warming will only continue to increase in the coming decades. Insane heat in Alaska--90 deg temps near Fairbanks, records toppling like, um, snowmen in May http://t.co/mo6xgGKqoR pic.twitter.com/3yqhV0Sbt6 -- Bill McKibben...
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