Summer heat is breaking records around the world, and leaving a trail of dying orchards, empty fishing boats and melting ice sheets. Earth tied its July heat record, and may have broken it, and an attribution study out Friday shows Europe’s record-breaking temperatures would have been “extremely unlikely” without the influence of man-made global warming.
Sabrina Shankman also has the latest episode from South Portland as activists rally a community to push back on the oil industry and its petroleum tank farms.
U.S. Soldiers Falling Ill, Dying in the Heat as the Planet Warms BY: DAVID HASEMYER
A 60 percent rise in military heat illnesses in the past decade and several deaths suggests the U.S. military isn't prepared for worsening climate change, an ICN/NBC investigation shows.
