heatwave'

A host of issues are tied together with climate change in the region and will require a sustained and coordinated effort to overcome.

Aid agencies tailoring responses to cope with extreme heat.

Europeans live in the world's fastest-warming continent, facing growing health risks stemming from intense heat.

The JMA and the Environment Ministry have issued heatstroke alerts for 30 prefectures, urging people across the country to take precautions.

Scorching conditions have killed 1,300 hajj pilgrims and closed schools for some 80 million children in Africa and Asia.

Over 100 dead and 40,000 suspected heatstroke cases were recorded in India.

Hundreds of the pilgrims who died in fierce heat at this year's haj were not officially registered with the Saudi authorities.

Extreme heat hammers nearly two million participants in the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.

Here's how climate change is pushing heat to new extremes.

Experts say more deaths occur earlier in the summer when people's bodies have not had a chance to acclimatize to the season.

Extreme heat has proved fatal for hundreds who began the journey last Friday to the Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Mecca in Saudi Arabia.

Billions across Asia are grappling with extreme heat this summer in a trend scientists say has been worsened by human-driven climate change.

Millions face heat stroke risk as Haj coincides with Mecca's hottest month.

Over 5,000 cases of heatstroke were detected in the central state of Madhya Pradesh alone.

India has been experiencing a blisteringly hot summer and a part of capital Delhi recorded the country's highest ever temperature.