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FILE - Amadou Coulibaly, a motorcycle taxi driver, drinks a sachet water to cool off under a blazing sun in Bamako, Mali, on April, 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed, File)

Extreme heat increasingly endangers children in West and Central Africa, UNICEF says

UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns.

FILE - Margarita Salazar wipes sweat off her brow inside her home amid high heat in Veracruz, Mexico, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)

A 13-month streak of global temperature records just ended. Here are five takeaways

JP Lantin, right, owner of Total Refrigeration, and service tech Michael Villa, left, work on replacing a fan motor on an air conditioning unitas temperatures are expected to hit 117-degrees Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Phoenix. Most of the Maricopa County's 645 heat-related deaths last year were outdoors, but 156 people died in their homes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Top US health official acknowledges more federal money for utility help is needed for extreme heat

FILE - A person wipes sweat from their brow at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, Calif., July 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ty ONeil, File)

Extreme heat is impacting most Americans’ electricity bills, AP-NORC poll finds

Total Refrigeration service tech Michael Villa works on an air conditioning unit as temperatures are expected to hit 117-degrees Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Phoenix. Most of the Maricopa County's 645 heat-related deaths last year were outdoors, but 156 people died in their homes. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Heat deaths of people without air conditioning, often in mobile homes, underscore energy inequity

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Extreme heat, drought, flooding: the battle facing farmers in Pakistan

An ongoing heatwave in parts of Pakistan is affecting farmers ability to irrigate their crops. Farmers are balancing between extreme weather conditions of drought, heat and monsoon rain damaging harvests and impacting yields. Human-induced climate change is partly to blame and needs to be addressed according to one expert.

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FILE - A flare burns at a well pad Aug. 26, 2021, near Watford City, N.D. The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs in 2023, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Heat-trapping carbon dioxide and methane levels in the air last year spiked to record highs again

FILE - Tourists visit the ancient Acropolis hill during a heat wave in Athens, Greece, on July 21, 2023. Climate change is making heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Study says since 1979 climate change has made heat waves last longer, spike hotter, hurt more people

FILE - Taylor Swift fans wait for the doors of the Nilton Santos Olympic stadium to open amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Nov. 18, 2023. A stifling heat wave was sweeping across southeast Brazil the day of Swift’s concert last November, just before the start of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo, File)

The ‘Taylor Swift effect’ aims to provide water during Brazil’s life-threatening heat waves

Dozens gathered at Nadaka Nature Park in Gresham, Ore., Saturday morning, March 16, 2024, to hold a tree planting event in memory of those who died during the heatwave of 2021. Multiple trees were planted across the Multnomah County in memory of each life that was lost. Family members and friends of those who passed participated in the event. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP)

Oregon county plants trees to honor victims of killer 2021 heat wave

FILE - People stand by their houses in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 5, 2023. South Sudan’s government is closing down all schools starting Monday as the country prepares for a wave of extreme heat expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors as temperatures are expected to soar to 113 Fahrenheit, in a statement late Saturday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)

South Sudan shutters all schools as it prepares for an extreme heat wave

FILE - Farm workers wait in line at Tudor Ranch in Mecca, Calif., Jan. 21, 2021. Every year, heat kills more people than floods, hurricanes and tornadoes combined, and experts warn that extreme heat will become more intense, frequent and lethal with climate change. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

In a rural California region, a plan takes shape to provide shade from dangerous heat

Golfers hit range balls during a warm day in Des Plaines, Ill., Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024. Illinois broke a 24 year old temp record with today's estimated 68 degree high and a 98 year old record set back in 1926 appears potentially in jeopardy Tuesday. These readings are May level temps, the equivalent of normal temps which occur here more than 2 months from now. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Notable numbers capture the wild weather hitting much of the US this week

FILE - Firefighters watch as the Fairview Fire burns on a hillside, Sept. 8, 2022, near Hemet, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Extreme heat, wildfire smoke harm low-income and nonwhite communities the most, study finds

A street vendor displays sheets for sale while people sunbathe on the beach in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Spain's weather agency says recent abnormally high temperatures for this time of year are set to continue in many parts of Spain on Friday and over the weekend, with an almost summer-like feeling in many coastal areas as people take to the beaches to sunbathe and some to have a winter swim(AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

People take to the beach as a winter heat wave hits much of Spain

Paraguay suffocates in soaring heat

Peter Beedlow, scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, looks up at Douglas fir trees that died from insect damage following heat stress in the Willamette National Forest, Ore., Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. Scientists are investigating what they say is a new, woefully underestimated threat to the world’s plants: climate change-driven extreme heat. (AP Photo/Amanda Loman)

Extreme heat represents a new threat to trees and plants in the Pacific Northwest

"Costaleros", who carry on their backs the portable dais platform which supports a statue of Jesus Christ of the "Padre Jesus Nazareno" brotherhood, participate in the holy week procession in Priego de Cordoba, southern Spain, Friday, April 7, 2023. Hundreds of processions take place throughout Spain during the Easter Holy Week. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

AP PHOTOS: An earthquake, a shipwreck and a king’s coronation are among Europe’s views in 2023

Heat has forced organizers to cancel Twin Cities races that draw up to 20,000 runners

A spider monkey opens its mouth as frozen fruit is served at the BioParque do Rio amid a heat wave in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Ice pops cool down monkeys in Brazil at a Rio zoo during a rare winter heat wave

An extensive area of the Serra das Bandeiras forest burns in Barreiras, western Bahia state, Brazil, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. According to the National Center for Prevention and Combat of Forest Fires, the fires are being fanned by strong winds, high temperatures, and dry weather. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil’s firefighters battle wildfires raging during rare late-winter heat wave

FILE - Tony Berastegui Jr., right, and his sister Giselle Berastegui drink water, July 17, 2023, in Phoenix. The historic heat wave continues in Phoenix, but the end may finally be in sight for residents of Arizona’s largest city. An excessive heat warning was expected to expire at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 10, and meteorologists were forecasting a high of 106 degrees (41.1 Celsius) on Monday, Sept. 11, and 102 (38.8 C) on Tuesday, Sept. 12. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

End may be in sight for Phoenix’s historic heat wave of 110-degree-plus weather

FILE - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology glaciologist and head of the Swiss measurement network 'Glamos', Matthias Huss, work at the Rhone glacier with his team near Goms, Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. A top glacier watcher has warned that a warm early summer and a heat wave could have caused severe glacier melt across Switzerland, threatening to make 2023 the second-worst year for ice loss after a record thaw last year. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

Swiss glacier watcher warns recent heat wave threatens severe melt again this year after record 2022

FILE - Police officer James Rhodes uses a wet towel to cool off as he directs traffic after a sporting event in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. Another record-setting day of high temperatures is forecast in the Dallas/Fort Worth area Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023, before a slight cooling trend moves into the area, according to the National Weather Service as heat warnings stretch from the Gulf Coast to the Southeastern U.S. and upper Mid-South. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Record heat recorded in Dallas as scorching summer continues in the United States

Heatwave hits Brazil during winter

A man floats on a paddle board off Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil at sunrise Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023. Brazil is facing a heat wave during the southern hemisphere's winter. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)

See you on Copacabana? Unusually balmy weather hits Brazil in a rare winter heat wave

Missouri schools struggle in late-summer heat wave

A jogger passes power lines during a sunset run, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, in San Antonio. Triple digit temperatures continue to stress the power grid. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Deadly heat wave in the central US strains infrastructure, transportation and the Texas power grid

People cool off in the water during hot weather at the public swimming pool Bellerive on the shore of the Geneva Lake, in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. The city of Lausanne has decided to open its swimming pools free of charge as many parts of Switzerland have been experiencing a period of extreme heat. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

Swiss police warn that heat wave raises danger of falling ice, rock in the Alps

Tourists seek shade during Madrid’s latest heatwave

Wildfire evacuation and heat wave alert in Italy

A police officer directing traffic takes a break to drink water after a sporting event in Arlington, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. The summer of 2023 may be drawing to a close — but the extreme heat is not: More record-shattering temperatures — this time across Texas — are expected Saturday and Sunday as the U.S. continues to bake. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Sweltering temperatures bring misery to large portion of central US, setting heat records

FILE - A tuber floats on the Comal River, July 26, 2023, in New Braunfels, Texas, as the area continues to feel the effects of triple-digit temperatures. Record setting temperatures are expected Saturday, Aug. 19, across Texas as the southwestern U.S. continues to bake during a scorching summer. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Record-setting temperatures forecast in Dallas as scorching heat wave continues to bake the US

FILE - The sun sets over the University District in Seattle, May 13, 2023, seen from 520 Bridge View Park in Medina, Wash. Two people may have died in a record-shattering heat wave in the Pacific Northwest this week, officials said on Wednesday, Aug. 16. (AP Photo/ Lindsey Wasson, File)

3 deaths suspected in the Pacific Northwest’s record-breaking heat wave

Canada heat wave raising danger of even more wildfires

FILE - The sun sets over the University District in Seattle, May 13, 2023, seen from 520 Bridge View Park in Medina, Wash. A hazardous heat wave is expected to bring scorching temperatures to the Pacific Northwest this week, Monday, Aug. 14, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/ Lindsey Wasson, File)

Heat wave forecast to bake Pacific Northwest with scorching temperatures