2023-07-20 19:05:04
As several continents are hit by extreme heat waves, the world is likely to experience its hottest month of July, after a month of June that has already reached records both on land and on the surface of the oceans.
After a month of June which was the hottest on record, after a daily world record pulverized on July 7 (17.24 ° C), the planet is about to experience its hottest month of July since the start of measurements, according to the European observatory Copernicus. In recent weeks, hundreds of millions of people have been suffocating across much of the Northern Hemisphere, which has been engulfed in heat waves « increased pressure on health systems »worries the head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
In the United States, in the furnace of Death Valley (California), the thermometer showed 52 ° C on Sunday. In neighboring Canada, eleven million hectares have already gone up in smoke this year. 555 fires were still considered out of control Thursday, fanned by heat and drought.
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