El pueblo canadiense de Lytton suele tener temperaturas promedio de verano de 77 ° F.

A mediados de junio, las temperaturas subieron tan alto como 116 ° F a 122 ° F durante tres días y fueron responsables de un incendio que devastó la ciudad de 300 personas.

Temperaturas récord similares en todo el oeste de EE. UU. Y Canadá han causado la muerte de casi 500 personas. Sin embargo, parece no haber un respiro con una cuarta "cúpula de calor" en menos de un mes formándose sobre las Montañas Rocosas en los EE. UU. Y el sur de Canadá el fin de semana pasado.

Un campo idílico que ahora se ha convertido en un enorme sumidero. Una calle residencial, ahora un mini río, por el que un hombre rema su bote. Estas son solo algunas de las escenas de Europa Occidental.

Las lluvias extremadamente intensas y una serie de inundaciones catastróficas han afectado con mayor dureza al oeste de Alemania, con partes de Bélgica, los Países Bajos, Suiza y el norte de Francia también afectadas. Hasta el 16 de julio, al menos 180 personas han muerto, mientras que 1300 siguen desaparecidas.

El oeste de Estados Unidos no es ajeno a las sequías. Los intervalos marcados por un clima cálido y seco son comunes en estados como California, Arizona y Nuevo México durante la primavera y el verano.

Sin embargo, la región está experimentando actualmente una de las rachas secas más severas que haya visto el país.

Los niveles de agua en los cuerpos de agua en todo el oeste son históricamente bajos, los incendios forestales arden desenfrenadamente en varios estados del oeste y las temperaturas récord están matando a cientos, entre muchos otros efectos devastadores.

On September 9, the Orca plant started up its fans. With a deceptively soft whir, the world’s largest carbon capture plant began removing planet-warming CO2 from the atmosphere. 

Orca marks a significant milestone for a technology known as "direct air capture." What's more, this captured CO2 can be liquefied and transported underground where it slowly solidifies into rock! 

When you hear about extreme events and dire predictions about climate, it is easy to lose hope. 

A recent study by the University of Bath in the U.K shows that you are not alone.

In a study of 10,000 youth around the world between the ages of 16 and 25, researchers found that nearly half the participants described anxiety about the state of our Earth's climate. 

Let's find out more and the actions you can take. 

Raging wildfires. Record-shattering heatwaves. Catastrophic storms and flooding.

These terms are appearing more frequently in news from around the world. 

Our planet has become warmer, with temperatures rising by 1.1℃ (2℉) in under 200 years. Scientists also know the culprits -- greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities.

But how can we know for sure that an extreme weather event is caused by climate change? This is where a new field of science comes in. 

A boy proudly displayed his insect collection at a state fair in Kansas, only to have federal investigators on his trail!  

The astute judge who reported one of the insects recognized it as a spotted lanternfly, a dangerous invasive species.

Though officials have been aware of the bugs for years, the nearest known infestation up until this point had been 850 miles east of Kansas. They are concerned that the boy’s specimen could be a sign of spreading lanternflies.

On September 9, a lightning strike had ignited the Paradise and Colony wildfires in Tulare County.

The two wildfires had converged into the KNP Complex fire over Sequoia National Park, threatening the giant sequoia trees, some of which are over 200 feet tall and more than 2,000 years old! 

Firefighters scrambled to protect the sequoia by wrapping the iconic trees in aluminum blankets. While the trees are now out of danger, the fires have burned over 30,000 acres.

If you’ve seen the movie “Madagascar,” you may be familiar with Julien the ring-tailed lemur and Maurice the aye-aye, both members of the diverse habitats on this island! 

However, this country we think of as teeming with vegetation and wildlife now grapples with a major food crisis due to an ongoing drought the nation has been fighting for the past four years. 

Each summer, the seemingly barren glaciers of Alaska, British Columbia, and the Pacific Northwest come to life, as billions of ice worms emerge from the ice.

Like a tapestry of black threads, the wriggling worms present a mystery to scientists.

Little is known about these critters, but if scientists wish to research these lifeforms, they will have to act fast. Glaciers, the worms’ natural habitat, are shrinking rapidly.

Let’s take a look at ice worms and their annual appearance.