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People, some of them holding parasols, cross an intersection amid heat, in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022.

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  • Weather

Tokyo warned of power crunch as Japan endures heat wave

Weather officials announce the earliest end to the country's annual summer rainy season since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records in 1951.

June 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
People, some of them holding parasols, cross an intersection amid heat, in Tokyo, Monday, June 27, 2022.

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  • Weather

Tokyo warned of power crunch as Japan endures heat wave

Weather officials announce the earliest end to the country's annual summer rainy season since the Japan Meteorological Agency began keeping records in 1951.

June 27, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Emergency personnel arrive to evacuate people at a mass shelter, on Sept. 2, 2021 in Independence, La. The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse for Hurricane Ida has been arrested.

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  • National

The owner of nursing homes whose residents suffered during Hurricane Ida is arrested

The owner of seven Louisiana nursing homes whose residents suffered in squalid conditions after being evacuated to a warehouse as Hurricane Ida approached last year was arrested on Wednesday.

June 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Minerva Contreras, 44, connects climate change to her health because she has a lung problem that makes it harder to breathe on hot days. Keeping her house near Bakersfield, Calif., cool costs as much as $800 a month in the summer.

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  • National

Americans connect extreme heat and climate change to their health, a survey finds

A new NPR survey shows 11% of Americans have experienced extreme heat in the past five years and had health problems stemming from a lack of air conditioning at home.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Molly Peterson
A plume of smoke from the Black Fire rises over the Gila National Forest. Philip Connors watched the fire grow and creep closer to his fire lookout post.

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  • Weather

A New Mexico firewatcher describes watching his world burn

Philip Connors deeply loves the forest he has watched over every summer for the past 20 years. But it was a different forest two decades ago, and will be even more changed once the flames die down.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon and
  • Steve Inskeep
The sun rises as a raptor flies by in Frankfurt, Germany, during the summer solstice of 2019, the so-called longest day on the Northern Hemisphere.

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  • Weather

The longest day: The first day of summer arrives in the Northern Hemisphere

The summer solstice officially begins at 5:13 a.m. Tuesday on the U.S. East Coast, according to the National Weather Service.

June 21, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A child plays in a fountain in the warm weather in London, Friday, June 17, 2022. A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is giving much of western Europe its first heat wave of the summer, with temperatures forecast to top 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) from Malaga to London on Friday.

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  • Europe

Europe wilts under early heat wave from Med to North Sea

A blanket of hot air stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea is bringing much of Western Europe its first heat wave of the summer.

June 18, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on April 28 in Washington, DC.

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  • Business

Flight cancelled? Pete Buttigieg is telling airlines to step up their game

The transportation secretary is one of the many travelers who had their flights cancelled in recent days. His happened the day after he met with airline CEOs about their operational struggles.

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • David Schaper
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on April 28 in Washington, DC.

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  • Business

Flight cancelled? Pete Buttigieg is telling airlines to step up their game

The transportation secretary is one of the many travelers who had their flights cancelled in recent days. His happened the day after he met with airline CEOs about their operational struggles.

June 17, 2022
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By:
  • David Schaper
Gregory Matarazzo takes a break from cycling as the temperatures hovered over 100 degrees in Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday, June 30, 2021.

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  • Weather

Heat wave keeps Midwest and South in its sticky grip

People are flocking to pools, beaches and cooling centers in a swath of the Midwest and South spanning from northern Florida to the Great Lakes, as a heat wave pushed temperatures into the 90s and beyond.

June 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A washed out bridge shown along the Yellowstone River Wednesday, June 15, 2022, near Gardiner, Mont.

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  • Weather

Yellowstone's northern half is unlikely to reopen this summer due to severe flooding

Yellowstone National Park prepares for limited reopening as surrounding communities grapple with flood damage

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Austin Cope
High water levels in the Lamar River eroding the Northeast Entrance Road.

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  • Weather

Yellowstone-area floods strand visitors and residents, prompt evacuations

"Unprecedented" floods wash out bridges, basements, and roads, close hospital

June 14, 2022
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler and
  • Austin Cope
High water in the Gardiner River along the North Entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Montana washed out part of a road on Monday.

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  • Weather

Flooding at Yellowstone National Park sweeps away a bridge and washes out roads

All entrances are closed at Yellowstone National Park after major flooding swept away at least one bridge, washed away roads and set off mudslides.

June 13, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
This weekend's heat wave will stretch from south Texas to California, where temperatures will climb as high as 115 degrees. This map is for Saturday's forecast.

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  • Climate

How to prepare for this weekend's heat wave stretching from California to Texas

Temperatures will rise into the triple digits across the Southwest and western U.S. this weekend. Daytime temps will be 10 to 20 degrees hotter than normal, according to the National Weather Service.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Dustin Jones
Zoe, second from left, walks onto the field with her fellow graduates. Zoey was one of eight Valedictorians and told her classmates, "Do not think about the unknown stresses of the future or the treasured memories of the past, but think about the present moment we are living right now."

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  • Climate

A high school senior reflects on her community's resilience after a devastating flood

Zoe Turner survived a flood that killed 20 neighbors. But now that she's graduated high school, she's trying to leave behind the lingering damage and move on to the next phase of her life.

June 05, 2022
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By:
  • Damon Mitchell
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