A wildfire sweeping across Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands led to the evacuation of 4,000 people on Sunday and officials warned tackling the blaze was being complicated by a combination of high temperatures, strong winds and low humidity.

The rise in extreme weather, which has been linked to climate change, has made the wildfire season in Europe longer and more dangerous.

The global average temperature was 0.1 degrees Celsius warmer than the previous June record, set in 2016.

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Could climate change-resistant homes help solve the housing crisis? The Met Office’s conclusion was unequivocal. There is “no doubt” climate change played a role in the record-breaking temperatures that fried the UK and northern Europe last month.
But there was an irony in this year’s latest heatwave too. The scorching heat that sparked fears of buckled train tracks and made many of us yearn for rain was a symptom of a gradual shift that isn’t just raising temperatures but is making flooding more likely too.

The heat is on as Tokyo faces extreme temperatures during test events a year out from the 2020 Olympic Games.

A California woman was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday after she admitted she tossed a bag of seven 3-day-old puppies into a recycling bin in sweltering temperatures.

Scientists have confirmed July was officially the hottest month ever measured by humans on Earth, The Independent reports. Meteorologists had earlier released preliminary data suggesting the record had been broken, leading to warnings about the urgency required to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis. But the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Thursday that July was 0.95C (1.7F) degrees warmer than the 20th century average for the month and had narrowly topped the previous record set in 2016, by 0.03C. Temperatures have been recorded every year since 1880. July 2019 was about 1.2C (4F) warmer than the pre-industrial era, according to the data. Scientists...

July 2019 is now officially the hottest month on record. The average global temperature last month was 1.71 degrees Fahrenheit above the 20th-century average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday.

Much of the planet sweltered in unprecedented heat in July, as temperatures soared to new heights in the hottest month ever recorded. The record warmth also shrank Arctic and Antarctic sea ice to historic lows.