NYTimes - Environment

Residents and summer travelers alike are searching for ways to stay safe and cool as the continent swelters amid a heat wave. Here are some tips.

Scorching temperatures have disrupted daily life in Britain this week, including events that centered on battling high temperatures.

An ancient dietary change made the manakin’s flashy courtship display possible, a new study suggests.

Powerful winds are carrying dust from Africa as far as southern England, as a heat dome keeps temperatures rising.

Crowds are filling the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, as temperatures soar above 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Forty people drowned while swimming in other waterways.

Global warming is causing extreme heat around the world. Now El Niño, a natural phenomenon that disrupts global weather patterns, is also at work.

More than a dozen countries have issued urgent heat warnings. France saw its highest average temperature ever on Tuesday.

The burning of fossil fuels is raising temperatures worldwide, but local factors, on land and at sea, determine which regions warm most rapidly.

Few schools in Britain or France have air-conditioning to keep children cool in soaring temperatures, leaving parents, teachers and officials divided about what to do.

France’s average temperature on Tuesday was its hottest ever, the country’s weather agency said. Several countries are under top-level heat warnings.

The database of federal global warming research recreates a website that was closed amid the administration’s broad retreat from climate science.

Records are being broken for the second time in a month, leading scientists to probe the upper limits of what the warming climate can dish out.

The federal government wants to help utilities buy large components for up to 10 large nuclear reactors. It’s unclear which, if any, companies might participate.

Searing temperatures in Western Europe are drawing comparisons to 2003, when a deadly heat wave sparked a reckoning.

It has stopped criminal prosecutions of people who install “defeat devices,” which make diesel trucks faster and more efficient but also dirtier.

A pair of proposals from the Trump administration would lower costs and weaken requirements for fossil fuel companies that drill on federal property.

Big parts of Europe are under high-level warnings for extreme heat, with forecasters predicting “severe” weather impact.

U.S. oil production is expected to grow only modestly next year as companies hesitate to spend more in an uncertain market.

Cameron Hamilton, who briefly led the agency on an acting basis last year but was fired for contradicting the president, also said he would get money out to states faster.