Source: Climate Progress Wildfires are taking off in Canada as the country goes through one of its hottest and driest summers in decades.

Source: Climate Central In a warming world, the U.S. could see its cities inundated with water, its power grids threatened by intense storms, its forests devastated by wildfire and insect infestations, and its coastlines washed away by storm surges.

Source: Circle of Blue It was business as usual for many climate indicators.

Source: The Guardian New Zealand’s vast Southern Alps mountain range has lost a third of its permanent snow and ice over the past four decades, diminishing some of the country’s most spectacular glaciers, new research has found.