Iran has started rolling blackouts, local media reported Sunday, which officials blamed on heat, drought impacting hydropower generation

American singer Christopher Maurice Brown better known as Chris Brown has released the music video to "Heat" featuring rapper, Gunna. Heat is off Chris Brown's ninth studio album, Indigo. In the video, Brown mans a female clothing store with Gunna. The store is surrounded by lots of women who troop in later as soon as…

With the temperature in France soaring, organisers and teams are taking steps to adapt as the winter sport again faces the problem of playing its marquee tournaments in summer. After often cool June weather for the group stages, temperatures have risen. In Montpellier on Tuesday, when Italy play China in the early evening, the temperature…

A scientific research assessment of a range of possible scenarios regarding the rate of climate change and socio-economic development in 173 African cities for the years 2030, 2060 and 2090 showed that a third of African city-dwellers could be affected by deadly heat waves in 2090. The results, published yesterday in the journal, Earth’s Future,…

A mysterious epidemic of chronic kidney disease among agricultural workers and manual laborers may be caused by a combination of increasingly hot temperatures, toxins and infections, according to researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. In recent years, chronic kidney disease has…

Nigerians should prepare for more deadly heat from climate change, which could lead to rise in cases of illness and death. Already, meningitis which is heat-related has killed 211 persons and affected 1,407 others within three months.