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Heat advisories warning of potentially record-breaking temperatures were active Monday across a vast swath of the U.S. as parts of the Plains region were still reeling from historic floods that triggered hundreds of rescues, widespread damage and pushed Minnesota’s
Heat alerts are in effect Monday for about 60 million people in the Lower 48, with all but about 5 million of them in the central part of the country. A swath of the United States from the Gulf Coast across much of the Plains and Midwest and up to southern South Dakota and Minnesota […]
A year after Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed outside a community shrine near Vancouver, a series of diplomatic and legal measures is sharpening the scrutiny on India’s alleged role in quashing overseas Sikh separatist movements through assassinations in both the United States and Canada. In Canada, an upcoming hearing on the Nijjar […]
Millions of Americans prepared to sweat through yet another scorching day, with the potential for rolling storms later Sunday to bring relief from the sweltering heat for at least some. Floodwaters inundated parts of the Midwest, including a town in Iowa whose own water-level gauge was submerged. From the mid-Atlantic to Maine,
Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing for toxic chemicals in the air. They detected spikes in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, most likely from leaks, or from natural-gas-burning buses. They found plumes of nitrous oxide, possibly from wastewater. […]
Floodwaters forced people out of their homes in parts of Iowa, the result of weeks of rain, while much of the United States longed for relief Saturday from yet another round of extraordinary heat. Sirens blared at 2 a.m. in Rock Valley, Iowa, population 4,200, where people in hundreds of homes were told to get […]
A relentless heat wave that baked more of the United States this past week is expected to continue and expand this weekend. Millions of Americans – particularly those in the highly populated Interstate 95 corridor are under heat-related advisories or alerts as the squelching heat is expected to hit record-breaking temperatures in some areas. In […]
A relentless heat wave that baked more of the United States this past week is expected to continue and expand this weekend. Millions of Americans – particularly those in the highly populated Interstate 95 corridor are under heat-related advisories or alerts as the squelching heat is expected to hit record-breaking temperatures in some areas. In […]
Two vans loaded with precision instruments trundled along the streets of New York and New Jersey in the heat earlier this week, sniffing for toxic chemicals in the air. They detected spikes in methane, a potent greenhouse gas, most likely from leaks, or from natural-gas-burning buses. They found plumes of nitrous oxide, possibly from wastewater. […]
After multiple days of relentless heat in much of the Midwest and Northeast, peak conditions are expected to Mid-Atlantic into the weekend. In places including Philadelphia and D.C., highs could reach 100 degrees both weekend days, with heat indexes, which take into humidity, over 105.