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The Wider Image: Rising sea levels are forcing Fiji's villagers to relocate. They want polluters to pay instead

Rising temperatures and sea levels getting worse faster, says UN weather report

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

Greenpeace activists demonstrate outside the U.N. Ocean Conference in Lisbon

Nations fail to reach deal on UN marine protection treaty

Diplomats from around the world have failed to reach agreement on a United Nations treaty designed to protect marine life on the high seas, after a fifth round of talks ended in impasse.

By Associated Press

City residents in Northeast flee heat waves poised to break records

For city folks in the Northeast trying to escape a nearly weeklong hot spell that only threatened to intensify Sunday, places like Promised Land, Pa. offered respite.

By Jeff McMillan, Associated Press

Oppressive heat wave persists across large swath of Northern Hemisphere

A heat wave that's already lasted more than a week keeps on baking the U.S., Asia and even the Arctic.

By Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

How heat waves, exacerbated by climate change, will be worst for the world’s poorest nations

The risk from heat waves is about more than intensity – being able to cool off is essential, and that’s hard to find in many low-income areas of the world.

By Mojtaba Sadegh, John Abatzoglou, Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, The Conversation

Can the world’s whitest paint save Earth?

By John Yang, Lorna Baldwin

A special experimental white paint that recently made it into the Guinness World Records could one day help keep the world from heating up. John Yang explains from West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Northwest heat wave spurs help for vulnerable residents

By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

Oregon volunteers are scrambling to hand out water to homeless people in Portland's isolated encampments as the Pacific Northwest sweats through a heat wave that is gripping the normally temperate region.

California may spend billions on permanent relief shelters as sweltering heat blankets the state

By Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

As millions of Americans across the Pacific Northwest and the Southeast are under heat advisories, extreme weather and its sometimes fatal implications are raising questions about whether infrastructure could help provide some relief. …

How dual threats of heat and COVID-19 exacerbate threats to vulnerable communities

By Courtney Vinopal

As temperatures soared throughout the country in July, local and state officials had to adjust their crisis response plans to account for the ongoing threat of the coronavirus pandemic.