Heat Waves

The US National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by Apple employees against the company, records on the agency's website show, amid a wave of employee activism at a company known for its secretive culture.

Italian firefighterson Thursday battled hundreds of fires throughout the country's south that have killed four people, fuelled by unrelenting temperatures enveloping southern Europe.

Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report said on Monday.

Millions of people across the western United States and Canada were hit Sunday by a new round of scorching hot temperatures, with some roads closed, train traffic limited and new evacuations ordered.

It was a humid Friday morning in Delhi with the minimum temperature settling at 24.1 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal.

In some respite from the scorching heat, parts of the national capital received rains on Thursday night. Delhi's fourth "heat wave day" of this month on Thursday saw the mercury rising to 41.8 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal.

North India sizzled under heat wave conditions today owing to a delay in the arrival of monsoon with the weather department forecasting rain-laden easterly winds covering the region by July 10.

A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by a group of leading climate scientists.

The Canadian military was on standby Saturday to help evacuate towns and fight more than 170 wildfires fuelled by a record-smashing heat wave and tinder-dry conditions as the government in Ottawa warned of a "long and challenging summer" ahead.

Heatwaves in Canada melts a plateful of candies. Check out the video here.

Due to intense heat wave, Delhi's peak power demand soared to 7,323 MW on Friday, the highest so far this summer season.

Reeling under scorching heatwave, Delhi got the much-needed respite this evening as light rains were witnessed in several parts of the national capital.

About 1,000 people were evacuated in western Canada, authorities said Thursday, as fires raged amid an unprecedented heat wave, charring most of at least one town.

Amid blistering heat in north India, a number of places in the Himalayan region are experiencing high temperatures with the mercury in Thoise in Ladakh's Nubra Valley and Solan hill station in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday soaring to 31 degrees Celsi

Work hours in Punjab government offices have been cut short due to extreme heat amid power shortage.

The US National Labor Relations Board is investigating two cases filed by Apple employees against the company, records on the agency's website show, amid a wave of employee activism at a company known for its secretive culture.

Italian firefighterson Thursday battled hundreds of fires throughout the country's south that have killed four people, fuelled by unrelenting temperatures enveloping southern Europe.

Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a UN climate science report said on Monday.

Millions of people across the western United States and Canada were hit Sunday by a new round of scorching hot temperatures, with some roads closed, train traffic limited and new evacuations ordered.

It was a humid Friday morning in Delhi with the minimum temperature settling at 24.1 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal.

In some respite from the scorching heat, parts of the national capital received rains on Thursday night. Delhi's fourth "heat wave day" of this month on Thursday saw the mercury rising to 41.8 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal.

North India sizzled under heat wave conditions today owing to a delay in the arrival of monsoon with the weather department forecasting rain-laden easterly winds covering the region by July 10.

A record-breaking heat wave that hit the western United States and Canada at the end of June would have been "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate change, according to an analysis by a group of leading climate scientists.

The Canadian military was on standby Saturday to help evacuate towns and fight more than 170 wildfires fuelled by a record-smashing heat wave and tinder-dry conditions as the government in Ottawa warned of a "long and challenging summer" ahead.

Heatwaves in Canada melts a plateful of candies. Check out the video here.

Due to intense heat wave, Delhi's peak power demand soared to 7,323 MW on Friday, the highest so far this summer season.

Reeling under scorching heatwave, Delhi got the much-needed respite this evening as light rains were witnessed in several parts of the national capital.

About 1,000 people were evacuated in western Canada, authorities said Thursday, as fires raged amid an unprecedented heat wave, charring most of at least one town.

Amid blistering heat in north India, a number of places in the Himalayan region are experiencing high temperatures with the mercury in Thoise in Ladakh's Nubra Valley and Solan hill station in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday soaring to 31 degrees Celsi

Work hours in Punjab government offices have been cut short due to extreme heat amid power shortage.