This June has been a scorcher in the South! With the hottest months of the year yet to come, dozens of cities across the nation are already dealing with dangerous, and even deadly, heat waves. Read more.

This city and neighboring nuclear lab appeared to be out of fire danger, at least for the day, but officials said Thursday that sacred Native American sites had burned and that the fire was now threatening a town first settled five centuries ago. Read more.

Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall along Mexico’s Gulf coast early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center reported. Read more.

More than 800 Somali children are arriving at crowded refugee camps in Kenya daily after walking for days to escape a prolonged drought, an aid group said this week. Read more.

Lightning has struck a junior school in western Uganda, killing 18 children and their teacher, officials say. Read more.

A Bay State gas station offered a special deal: gas under $2 a gallon to help victims of the tornado tragedy in Massachusetts. Read more.

Four houses in Maidenhead have been struck by lightning which caused damage to a roofs, left holes in walls and short-circuited appliances. Read more.

Greenland’s ice sheet melted the most it has in over a half century last year, US government scientists said Tuesday in one of a series of “unmistakable” signs of climate change. Read more.

It’s been more than 300 months since the average global average temperature was below average, scientists and the U.S. government said in the annual State of the Climate report released Tuesday. Read more.