NYTimes - Environment

A heat wave responsible for shattering numerous temperature records in Western Europe continued its shift east.

First estimates published by the national health agency listed hundreds more deaths per day compared with the daily death rate in previous months.

As the continent swelters, some right-wing populists are talking up their support for air-conditioning.

The devastating heat wave has exposed weaknesses in the continent’s infrastructure, much of it built for a cooler climate that no longer exists.

Many philanthropists are backing away from climate giving. But one is writing very big checks.

Price cuts and low-interest-rate loans are luring buyers, including people offended by the company’s chief executive.

Gregg Phillips was in charge of the emergency response agency’s largest division and had come under scrutiny for a series of bizarre claims.

The lawsuit aims to hold fossil fuel companies responsible for a heat wave in Portland five years ago. The industry says the case should be thrown out.

Temperature records have been broken in several European countries this week.

Heat domes happen all over the world, and the one over Europe this week is locking in days of near-record highs across Britain, Spain and France.

Heat-related deaths and disruptions to daily life are forcing politicians to reckon, in different ways, with a rapidly warming planet.

Parts of Spain, France and other countries are seeing slight relief, but the record-breaking heat wave is far from over.

For the Bachman’s sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.

A scientific analysis concluded that such high temperatures, across so much of the continent, would “not have been possible” without global warming.

Critical conditions are expected through the weekend across Utah, Arizona, Nevada and elsewhere.

The extreme heat smothering Europe has upended Climate Week in London.

The sweeping legislation, fully enacted last month, has been challenged by Republican-led states. Environmental groups have their own complaints.

The government is teaming up with Colossal Biosciences, a private company that claims to have revived extinct dire wolves, to store samples from at-risk animals and plants.

The settlement addresses the dumping of PFAS “forever chemicals,” which have been linked to cancer and other risks, by Chemours in several states.

The continent’s second heat wave since May continued to disrupt daily life for millions. Officials in Spain said it might have contributed to a spike in deaths.