Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fueled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's Far East, forced flight cancellations in the Southwest U.S., and melted tarmac on roads in Britain.

Killer heat due to global warming means much of the planet faces rising fatalities, a study shows. By 2100, almost half of people on the planet will be at risk of heat-related illness or death - even if emissions fall.

Planes have been grounded in Phoenix as life-threatening heat descends across the Southwest.

A weather system in the Gulf of Mexico has a 90 percent chance of becoming a tropical storm in the next day or two, threatening energy infrastructure as it advances toward Texas and Louisiana, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday.

Communities and oil refining and production facilities from Texas to Florida braced on Tuesday for potential disruptions as Tropical Storm Cindy strengthened over the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, threatening to bring flash floods across parts of the northern Gulf Coast.

The notoriously tough insects are just as dangerous when they're wet as they are dry, according to Alabama officials.

Extremely hot days are expected to be much more frequent in the coming decades, potentially disrupting our everyday lives.

A photo of a man in Alberta mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has been causing a bit of a storm on social media. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday evening as the twister passed near their home in Three Hills. She says cutting the grass was on her husband's to-do list, and as he started the task, she went for a nap.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recently announced world records for the highest death tolls from lightning, tropical cyclones, tornadoes and hailstorms in recorded history.

The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

A deadly storm lashed Moscow this week while a cyclone wreaked havoc in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

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After a bridge closure, people had to bushwhack a 1-mile trail through the woods to get their kids to school. This sounds like a dystopian action novel but it's everyday life for the people in Big Sur. Then over the weekend, the next disaster struck. More than a million tons of rock careened down a hillside onto Highway 1, burying a quarter-mile of the road in debris. As of Tuesday, authorities didn’t even know what it looked like from the ground because the hillside was still so unstable, no one had been able to approach it, the AP reported.

Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, and authorities warned the number of casualties could rise.

After some of the most extreme flooding in the region in over 100 years, Missouri and its neighboring states await the next deluge, which threatens further damage. A slow-moving area of low pressure is predicted to dump up to four inches of new rain between Tuesday night and Thursday following the 6 to 12 inches that fell over the weekend.

It'll be an atmospheric traffic jam.

As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently.

Assisted by a drone, the NWS found tornado damage for almost 100 miles.

Proposed NOAA cuts would make predicting extreme weather even harder. The Trump administration reportedly plans to make deep cuts to the budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, a key provider of information about the climate and weather. All told, the proposed cuts amount to a full 17 percent of the agency’s budget, according to various reports. But the deepest would slash money for NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, which operates a squad of satellites monitoring the environment. These satellites tell scientists about climate variability, weather, oceans, and much else.

Malta's famous Azure Window rock arch has collapsed into the sea after heavy storms. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said the news was "heartbreaking". A study in 2013 said that while erosion was inevitable, the structure was not in imminent danger of collapsing, the Times of Malta reports.

A major nor'easter threatens to shut down travel due to heavy snow and strong winds from Washington, D.C., to New York City and Boston early this week.

The intense rains, overflowing rivers, mudslides and flooding being experienced Peru are the worst seen in in two decades, authorities said Saturday, as the death toll hit at least 72.

Intense rains have led to flooding and mudslides in northern Peru this week, leaving thousands homeless and dozens of residents dead. According to the Associated Press, at least 72 people lost their lives and thousands are now homeless after a series of storms wreaked havoc on the South American nation. At least 115,000 homes have been destroyed, roadways are impassable and 117 bridges are reportedly washed out, reports the AP.

Ex-Cyclone Debbie brings widespread flash flooding to Queensland's most populous region.

Hundreds are also injured in the province of Putumayo after heavy rain causes mudslides.

Landslides have killed at least 112 people in south-west Colombia and left many more injured, says President Juan Manuel Santos. Hours of heavy rains overnight caused rivers to burst their banks, flooding homes with mud in Putumayo province. An unknown number of people are missing. One army officer said the main local hospital was struggling to cope.

‍‍At least 254 people have been killed and hundreds are injured or missing after mudslides destroyed homes in southern Colombia, Reuters has reported, citing an army statement. The violent weather has left 400 other people injured, with 200 missing, said the statement. There have been no reports of Chinese casualties, confirmed the Chinese Embassy in Colombia.

Environment Canada says a massive system is slowly drenching much of Ontario, the Maritimes and Quebec. Record precipitation levels — with double to triple the seasonal norms for rainfall — have threatened to trigger widespread flooding in those areas.

An overhead view showing the recent flooded residential neighbourhood of Ile Mercier, Quebec

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At least 53 people have been killed by flash floods caused by several days of torrential rain in northwest Pakistan, officials say.

The mandatory evacuation order means that about 70,000 people who live in Fort McMurray are being told to flee the city.

A wildfire ripping through Canada's oil sands region blazed for a seventh day on Sunday as officials warned almost 100,000 people who fled the area that they would not be returning home soon.

India just set a new national record heat benchmark when the small city of Phalodi, in northwest India, recorded a high temperature of a whopping 51 degrees Celsius, or 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit, on May 19. The data, recorded by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), shows that the high temperature eclipsed the previous national high temperature of 50.6 degrees Celsius, which was set way back in 1886.