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How tourist attractions are keeping animals cool during the Queensland heatwave

As Queensland experiences a heatwave, tourist attractions across the east coast are working hard to ensure the animals in their care are kept cool in the stifling conditions.

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Queensland weather pushes power grid to the limit as BOM warns of ongoing heatwave

Queensland's energy minister says the state will have enough electricity supply to make sure the "lights stay on" as the heatwave intensifies today but planned outages will go ahead.

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Police warn against leaving children in locked cars as south-east Queensland heatwave continues

The 30-year-old woman was taken into custody after police were called to rescue a child left unattended in a Toowoomba shopping centre car park.

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Paramedics urge people to stay hydrated, look out for others as Queensland swelters through heatwave conditions

Blasting the aircon isn't always an option in heatwave conditions. Here are the danger signs to watch for and how to stay safe and cool.

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Planting more trees could reduce premature deaths in European cities by a third – new research

Urban development leads to fewer shaded areas and more heat-absorbing paved surfaces. Cities tend to be warmer than their rural surroundings as a result, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. During the summer daytime, cities can be up to 12℃ hotter than rural areas.

The Conversation

BOM's issues heatwave warning for Queensland's south-east with no overnight relief

No let-up forecast for days as Brisbane swelters thorough stifling overnight humidity.

ABC News

Lake Mac fest 'success' despite heatwave

If there was any indicator that this year's Lake Mac Festival was a success, it was that the bacon and egg rolls and snags ran out because so many people turned up for the community breakfast.

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Texas heat-related deaths reached a two-decade high in 2022 amid extreme temperatures

A Texas Tribune analysis of state data found that at least 268 people in Texas were killed by heat last year, and a large portion of those deaths were likely migrants who died after crossing the border.

The Texas Tribune

Volunteers plant mini-forests in Paris to slow climate change, tackle heatwaves

French volunteers are using a pioneering Japanese tree-planting method to create pocket forests in Paris in the hope they will slow climate change, create biodiversity hotspots and tackle the growing number of heatwaves in the capital.

France 24

As heatwaves and floods hit cities worldwide, these places are pioneering solutions

Climate change is going just as badly for cities as we have been warned it would. Extreme weather is increasingly common and severe globally. Australian cities have endured a number of recent disastrous events.

The Conversation

Warning of unprecedented heatwaves as El Niño set to return in 2023

Scientists say phenomenon coupled with growing climate crisis likely to push global temperatures ‘off the chart’

The Guardian - UK

New Zealand's southern waters experiencing marine heatwave

Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists.

Reuters

‘The human impact is clear’: Ocean heat continues to rise

The planet’s air temperature has been rising for decades but it wobbles up and down, write Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis. The ocean doesn’t do the same dance, it changes more slowly – and more deeply

The Independent UK

Last eight years hottest on record as scientists warn of 'unprecedented' temperatures

2022 became the eighth consecutive year average global temperatures reached at least 1C above pre-industrial levels, but scientists have warned the pattern is likely to continue

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The past 8 years were hottest in history

A new report also names 2022 as the fifth-warmest, despite the cooling effects of La Niña

Axios

Ocean heat content hits record high, a sign of global warming

The trend is altering the water cycle in ways that lead to extreme weather events.

The Conversation

Four ways winter heatwaves affect humans and nature

An extreme winter heatwave meant countries across Europe experienced a record-breaking New Year’s Day. New daily temperature records for the month of January were set in at least eight countries: Belarus, Czechia, Denmark, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands and Poland.

Salon

Europe starts 2023 with a heat wave

Climatologists are calling it “the most extreme heat wave in European history"

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Europe swelters in 'staggering' heatwave as hottest January EVER recorded in 8 countries

Countries across Europe have recorded record-breaking January temperatures as experts warn that the number of intense warm weather events in winter are on the rise

Evening Standard

Winter heat records smashed across Europe as temperatures reached 25°C in Spain on New Year’s Day

January temperatures in some parts of the continent feel more like summer

The Independent UK

‘The most extreme heat wave ever seen in Europe’: Warm January topples records

Record temperatures being set across Europe as the year kicks off with unusually warm January

The Guardian - UK

Peace in Ukraine and record heatwaves: our supporters’ predictions for 2023

Last year, Guardian supporters predicted the war in Ukraine, the decline of Twitter and crypto, and the defenestration of Boris Johnson. So what do they see in the year ahead?

360info

New ways to survive heatwaves

Evidence shows cities can reduce heat impacts and protect residents

Financial Times

Don’t underestimate the power of climate bullshit

The claim that net zero policies are to blame for the energy crisis is starting to gain traction

AAP

SA, Victoria sweating in heatwave peak

Adelaide residents have sweltered through the night as a heatwave peaking across southern Australia fries several capital cities and inland areas.

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