The official home village of Father Christmas has been hit with a record-breaking heatwave, stoking fears that wildfires that ...

Eastern Europe remains in the grip of extreme heat and spreading wildfires, while Western Europe cools down with storms and rain. What weather have you experienced in the past week?

Finland has shattered its national weather record, experiencing 14 consecutive days exceeding 30°C, surpassing the previous ...

The Arctic city of Rovaniemi in northern Finland, home to Santa Claus and known for snow and winter holidays, has been ...

The heatwave has left much of the country’s surface soil parched, prompting the Meteorological Institute to issue wildfire ...

After an unusually cold early summer, the whole of Finland has been plunged into two weeks of high temperatures.

In the U.S., urban planners introduced zoning that called for “setbacks.” They wrote “solar codes” into urban plans. They ...

Heat alert thresholds differ by country. In Finland, warnings are triggered when highs reach 27 degrees or daily averages exceed 20 degrees. In Sweden, yellow alerts are issued if temperatures are ...

The 1995 heat wave in Chicago killed 739 people and changed the nation’s approach to urban heat waves.

As temperatures soar to 100 degrees, Triangle residents are still braving long lines at the DMV despite new Saturday hours intended to reduce wait times.

The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the country in July of 1936.

When a hurricane or a wildfire strikes, the economic damage is usually very visible — roofs are ripped off or charred homes line roads. Heat waves cause financial damage, too, ...