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Most of Ontario started to swelter on Monday as what's expected to be a prolonged heat wave arrived in the province, with Environment Canada warning that many communities could experience dangerously high temperatures this week. 

The year rapid, dramatic change hit climate scientists like a "punch in the guts."

For Muskan, the arrival of summer in Delhi is the “beginning of hell.” As temperatures in her cramped, densely populated east Delhi neighbourhood often soar above 45 C, she dreams of only one thing: air conditioning.

While millions across Europe sweat through a summer of record−breaking heat, they’re skiing in Africa.

Electricity demand expected to surpass supply as temperatures hit triple digits and shatter records.

From the snowcapped peaks of Tibet to the tropical island of Hainan, China is sweltering under the worst heatwave in decades while rainfall hit records in June.

Temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortages.

We know how to cool homes, and in turn save lives, but the question of who is responsible for making it happen remains.

That’s according to a new report by the Pembina Institute, a non-profit clean energy think tank, which also finds the upgrades could create 200,000 jobs while making a sufficient dent in carbon emissions.

A dry spring left the fields on Karen Klassen's farm parched, and now the Manitoba farmer is bracing for them to get worse. Any day, an unprecedented heat wave smothering western North America will roll over her land, turning sun-baked soil to dust and leaving a poor crop of peas, wheat, and barley in its wake. 

It’s not just people going outside and getting too much sun, it's that the heat is inescapable. With temperatures in the 40s in many parts of the province, some homes just become unsafe places to be.

Forestry experts are hoping for clear, blue skies as unprecedented hot weather pushes the wildfire risk in Western Canada to similar record-breaking levels.

A new report argues that big investments in adaptation measures will not only avert environmental catastrophe but also reap significant returns.

Cities around the globe felt record-breaking, red-hot temperatures this July: In the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Algeria, Georgia, Armenia, Russia, Oman and China, the thermostat reached all-time highs.