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Heatwave

Climate Change made devastating early heat in India and Pakistan 30 times more likely

Since the beginning of March, India and Pakistan and large parts of South Asia experienced prolonged heat, that at the time of writing, May 2022, still hasn’t subsided.

23 May, 2022 | Heatwave | Asia

Western North American extreme heat virtually impossible without human-caused climate change

During the last days of June 2021, Pacific northwest areas of the U.S. and Canada experienced temperatures never previously observed, with records broken in many places by several degrees Celsius.

07 July, 2021 | Heatwave | North America

Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate change

Photo by Konstantin Dyadyun on Unsplash

In the first six months of 2020, Siberia experienced a period of unusually high temperatures, including a record-breaking 38 degrees C in the town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, causing wide-scale impacts including wildfires, loss of permafrost, and an invasion of pests.

15 July, 2020 | Heatwave | Northern Asia

Human contribution to the record-breaking July 2019 heatwave in Western Europe

Paris plage in a heatwave

After the extreme heat that took place in the last week of June 2019, a second record-breaking heat wave struck Western Europe and Scandinavia at the end of July 2019.

02 August, 2019 | Heatwave | Europe

Human contribution to record-breaking June 2019 heatwave in France

Shaded windows, Photo by Lagos04 on Unsplash

A heatwave struck large parts of Europe during the last week of June 2019, breaking several historical records at single locations in France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic and Spain.

02 July, 2019 | Heatwave | Europe

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