How to help your garden recover from a heatwave
Put down the fertiliser.
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Heatwaves are making toxic algae worse, but the real problem is what we are putting into our rivers and lakes
Hot weather accelerates toxic algal blooms, but nutrient pollution provides the fuel.
We recreated the legendary heatwave summer of 1976 in today’s climate – here’s what we found
For 15 consecutive days, temperatures were over 32°C. Today, heatwaves are 3°C or 4°C hotter.
Should the UK name heatwaves like storms? It won’t make people take them more seriously
Italy unofficially names heatwaves, but ‘Lucifer’ was only slightly more effective than ‘Arnold’.
Too hot to learn: how climate change hurts children’s chances from birth
Floods, droughts and extreme heat can disrupt nutrition and healthcare in early life, with consequences that may last for years.
‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question
Instead of asking whether climate change caused a heatwave, we should ask how much hotter it became because of fossil fuel emissions.
Heatwaves are an invisible killer – and the UK is woefully unprepared
Extreme heat could kill 5,000 people each year in the UK by the 2050s.
In hot water: what happens to marine life during heatwaves
The full picture of potential consequences of the UK’s marine heatwaves is only just starting to emerge.
Deadly heatwaves threaten to reverse India’s progress on poverty and inequality – new research
Spring 2022’s record heat put most Indians at greater risk of a premature death.
Is India’s heatwave a freak event? A statistician investigates
Regular statistics isn’t much good at predicting the improbable.
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