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The heat waves wracking the country are bad enough on their own. But they’re colliding with another crisis: The water is running low.

On Monday, the global average temperature reached a record high of 17.01 C. The next day, the record was broken by another 0.17 C, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. Scientists predict Wednesday’s temperatures might surpass both of these.

The mercury has since dipped again, but experts say the short surge marked a new global heat record for June and indicates more extremes ahead as the planet enters an El Niño phase that could last years.

El Niño could push global temperatures past the 1.5 C tipping point, the World Meteorological Organization warns.

A summer forecast warns western wildfires will likely continue to be “a major concern," with higher-than-normal temperatures expected when the second fire season ramps up in July and peaks in August.

The report by the World Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization calls for urgent attention to save both lives and jobs. Beyond the nine countries rating the highest level of concern, the agencies said 22 countries are identified as “hotspots’’ risking acute food insecurity.

There’s a two-out-of-three chance within the next five years that the world will temporarily reach the internationally accepted global temperature threshold for limiting the worst effects of climate change, a new World Meteorological Organization report forecasts.

The oceanic phenomenon could lead to more pathogen-carrying mosquitoes, bacteria, and toxic algae.

New research shows a fast-acting climate connection between poles that may be driven by wind rather than by ocean currents.

Tijuana’s Citizens’ Flood Monitor offers a model for data collection in the flood-affected West.

Scientists say the phenomenon, coupled with the growing climate crisis, is likely to push global temperatures off the charts.

Minutes away from the Kenyan mainland, the densely forested island of Wasini is one of several starting lines for coral reef restoration efforts in the western Indian Ocean. On a rare calm day during the normally turbulent monsoon season, four divers, carrying measuring equipment, shoes and toothbrushes descended in turns to the sea−bed reef restoration site on the Shimoni channel.

Australia sweltered through its fourth-hottest year on record last year despite the recent return of the usually cooling La Nina climate pattern, the nation’s weather bureau said on Friday, January 1, 2021.

Canadians can expect a "mixed bag" of winter weather in the coming months, according to The Weather Network.

A mass bleaching of coral reefs worldwide is finally easing after three years, U.S. scientists announced on Mon. June 19, 2017.