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

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

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.

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

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