“People do look tired, they look exhausted, as if they’re kind of wilting,” the Guardian’s Rome correspondent, Angela Giuffrida, tells Michael Safi.
Italy, like many other countries, has been experiencing record-breaking heat. The Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, explains why we’re seeing these temperatures now and what we can expect in the future if we do not address the climate emergency.
“This is the kind of heat that takes the breath out of you,” the Guardian US’s extreme weather correspondent, Gabrielle Canon, says. Canon has been reporting from Phoenix, Arizona, where it’s been over 43C and authorities are concerned about heat-related fatalities, especially among people living on the streets.
Reporter Emma Graham-Harrison, who is based in Taiwan, describes how the US climate envoy, John Kerry, met his Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, in Beijing on the day that China recorded its new highest temperature of 52.2C.
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