Ambulances in Tulsa and Oklahoma City have taken dozens of patients to hospitals with heat exhaustion or heat stroke, and seen a significant increase over previous summers.
Days before a glacier in the Italian Dolomites broke off with the force of a collapsing skyscraper, crushing at least nine hikers under an avalanche of ice, snow and rock, Carlo Budel heard water running under the ice. “I heard what sounded like a river’s torrent,” said Budel, who lives in an isolated refuge next to the glacier on the 11,000-foot Marmolada mountain. At the