For two months, China has been boiling. Temperatures have regularly topped 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The Yangtze, the world’s third-longest waterway, has gone dry. The country’s hydroelectric system is crippled because of the lack of, well, hydro.
Flash floods in the American southwest have closed parts of national parks, including Moab and Zion, stopped highways in Colorado, swamped cars in Texas, and trapped visitors in a New Mexico cave in recent days.
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