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Even camels can't cope: Africa's ships of the desert hit by rising temperatures

Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.

Europe should look to Africa for heatwave solutions

African communities have spent decades developing practical, tested ways to live with extreme heat.

What this desert city can teach the world about tackling heat deaths

Maricopa County in Arizona has some of the hottest temperatures, but it has reduced the number of heat-related deaths.

Record heat expected in Hong Kong this year as โ€˜superโ€™ El Nino threatens: Observatory

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMPโ€™s journalism by subscribing. Hong Kongโ€™s weather forecaster has warned of record high temperatures this year and next, with a developing El Nino potentially becoming the strongest on record. The Observatory said on Monday that sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean were expected to rise further, developing into an El Nino event this summer that would...