Climate change is making giant heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer, with Australia and North America recording the biggest increases in magnitude, a study has found.
Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20 per cent more slowly, meaning more people stay hot longer, and they are happening 67 per cent more often, according to a study in Friday’s Science Advances.
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