Into the fire: The alarming effects of climate change
Delhiwallas may have learnt to live with 43 degree heat, but Europe is wilting in the heat as a record heatwave continues to sweep across the northern hemisphere, causing forest fires, droughts and pe
A local grocery store invited customers for a sleepover to cool off as the heatwave continues in Helsinki, Finland. Scientists have long warned that a warming planet will wreak more extreme weather patterns across the globe, from heatwaves to hurricanes. It is roughly 1° hotter today than before when the Industrial Age&rsquos first furnaces began belching gases.
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2/19
Sweden&rsquos tallest peak lost its title last week because record heat melted away its tip, a glacier that sits atop the southern peak of the Kebnekaise mountain. Located in far northern Sweden, Kebnekaise is a popular tourist spot. The climate change has badly affected the region&rsquos reindeer herders too.
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3/19
A young girl at a public fountain on a hot summer day in Tokyo. Roughly 125 have died in Japan as the result of a heatwave that pushed temperatures in Tokyo above 40ºC for the first time. Japan has declared its heatwave to be a natural disaster.
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4/19
Long hours of sunlight and high water temperatures have created perfect conditions for toxic algae, seen on the beach in Gdynia, Poland. Poisonous to humans and animals, the algae interests scientists at the Polish Academy of Sciences' Oceanology Institute as the bloom contains a type of bacteria that could prove useful in the fight against microbial resistance.
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5/19
Elephants of Cirkus Arena are being hosed down by local firefighters during a hot summer day in Gilleleje, Denmark.
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6/19
Bus driver Abdelkader poses in a bus wearing a bermuda, the new RATP uniform allowed during heat waves in the French capital, in Paris, France. In Nantes, a bevy of male bus and tram drivers sweltering in the 37-degree heat made headlines with an unusual protest against a ban on their wearing shorts. They turned up in skirts, which are allowed for female drivers!
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7/19
The Champagne region in France, renowned for the sparkling wine that bears its name, is grappling with rising temperatures that affects the acidity and taste of the champagne. Over the last six months, the region has been two degrees hotter than normal. Warmer nights may ensure that grapes ripen, but it also results in lower acidity in the grapes. This doesn't spell good news because acid
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8/19
Belgian winemaker Annie Hautier works among vines at the Domaine du Chapitre in Baulers, Belgium. A warming climate has contributed to a quickly expanding wine industry in a country otherwise known for chocolate and beer. The grape growing area has expanded five-fold and production has quadrupled since 2006. The UK and Poland are now producing wine, and competing with France, as their cli
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9/19
A combine, taken with a drone, harvests wheat in a field of the "Zemlyaki" farm in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. Global warming has helped Russia to expand its wheat yield, lowering global prices while the corn belt region in the US is expanding, with the growing season getting longer.
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10/19
A young woman sorts coffee beans at the Kaffa Forest Farmers Cooperative Union outside Bonga, Ethiopia. Poor countries, like the Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, are losing billions of dollars a year to extreme weather events like droughts that destroy harvests. The worst hit countries are those who rely on a single crop for export revenues like Ethiopia with coffee. South and central Ameri
