BEIJING—Heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people around China as the capital had a relative respite from the sweltering heat. Beijing reported 9.8 straight days when the temperature exceeded 35 C (95 F), the National Climate Center said Monday. Such a streak was last recorded in 1961—decades before most Beijing residents had air conditioning or…

Ryan and Colin Pyle leave their moonscape camping ground at Turpan and head across the salt flats to Xinjiang, China’s Wild West. In a few hours, they travel from 150 meters below sea level to 3,300 meters (10,827 feet) above sea level in freezing temperatures. …

KABUL—At least 78 people have died of cold in Afghanistan during the country’s worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday. Deaths from the cold have been recorded in eight of the country’s 34 Provinces, officials said. The coldest winter in 15 years, which has seen temperatures dip as low as -34…

Emergency protocols are being put into place across the UK following a warning from the Met Office that the country is set to see temperatures fall from Wednesday night. According to forecasters, the UK could see temperatures drop as low as minus 10 degrees C as arctic weather moves in. Whilst low temperatures are not…

Britons can expect “mostly fine and dry” weather throughout this week, the Met Office has said. It comes after Sunday brought wall-to-wall sunshine for most of Britain, with a high of 28.1C recorded in Frittenden, Kent. The temperature won’t reach the record-breaking level seen in July, but it will hit up to 35C in places,…

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Friday that their vaccine can be can be stored at higher than the ultra-low temperatures they had previously specified. The companies announced they have submitted new data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that shows the COVID-19 vaccine can be stored at -25 to -15 degrees Celsius (-13 to 5 degrees Fahrenheit),…