As global temperatures continue to rise, similar extreme heat waves in February could occur once every 10 years, according to ...

ICPAC data indicate that torrential rains could occur in southern Tanzania and parts of southwestern Uganda in March, leading ...

Unusually hot temperatures forecast over the next four days (March 4-8) in Burkina Faso and parts of Mali in Africa ... fossil fuels and heat the planet, we can expect heat waves like this ...

In a Comment piece in the journal Nature Climate Change, they note that such heat waves negatively impact ocean processes, ocean life in the overheated regions, and coastal communities.

Next the researchers are working on soybeans and cowpeas; the latter is “a hugely important food-security crop in African countries,” Meacham-Hensold says. A high-yield soybean variety with the same ...

Mortality rates during heat waves have been put in the spotlight with research from The University of Queensland showing a 20% increase in heat wave-related deaths due to human-induced climate change.