The square in front of the Van Gogh Museum had sprouted scores of tables and shops selling hotdogs, chips and pasta, but the biggest queues were in front of the ice-cream shops. The dogs that were bei...

Temperatures during India’s monsoon season have risen this century and the country could see more frequent heatwaves in future, the government said on Wednesday, but it added that heat-related d...

Emergency services battled wildfires across swathes of southern Europe amid mass evacuations on Wednesday, as warnings sounded in London after Britain’s hottest day that the fight against climat...

Being a student who lives within the halls of university accommodation, I have been left with no choice but to go out and buy a small stand fan for my room as it had become dangerously close to resemb...

It was forecast since last week, when the Meteorological (Met) Office issued its first-ever red warning of danger to life from extreme heat, but nothing could have prepared for the sweltering effect a...

The Met Office will need to validate the equipment used to measure the temperature before it officially becomes a recorded high. On Monday, British officials issued the UK's first-ever extreme he...

A heat wave broiling Europe spilled northwards on Monday to Britain and fuelled ferocious wildfires in Spain and France, which evacuated thousands of people and scrambled water-bombing planes and fire...

Scorching temperatures and raging wildfires have already forced the evacuations of thousands of people in Portugal, France, and Spain. The heatwave is expected to continue in the coming week as well. ...

Flooding and extremely high temperatures have caused multiple deaths in eastern China, where record-high temperatures of above 42 degrees Celsius (107 degrees Fahrenheit) were recorded. Firefight...

Rising sea level present a growing problem for the island of Mallorca, yet nobody knows how to stop vast quantities of sand being washed into the sea. These days, there is only space for three instead...