Western North America is suffering from heat waves that record the highest temperature every day, and wildfires overlap.
Two firefighters died while fighting the wildfire, and hundreds of millions of sea creatures were killed on the Pacific coast.
According to CNN broadcasts, almost all of California and major cities in the southwestern United States are affected by heat waves, and the record high is expected to be broken on the 11th local time.
In Las Vegas, Nevada, the daytime high temperature rose to 47.2 degrees Celsius yesterday afternoon.
This equates to the highest record set on July 24, 1942.
In 2005, 2013, and 2017, the highest temperature has risen this much.
In Sacramento, California, a record high of 45.6 degrees Celsius today could be broken.
Death Valley reached 54.4 degrees Celsius on the 9th.
In 1913, it was close to 56.7 degrees Celsius, the highest recorded global meteorological temperature in the region.
Western North America, including the United States and Canada, is suffering from heatwaves since mid-June, with hundreds of people estimated to have died due to the heat dome phenomenon.
According to the National Weather Service, the average temperature in the US mainland last month was 22.6 degrees Celsius, the hottest June in 127 years.
Due to the unusually high temperature and dry weather, sea creatures such as mussels, clams, and starfish in the Pacific coast of the western North America are also killed, raising concerns about adverse effects on the ecosystem.
The New York Times and CNN reported that on the west coast of North America, dead mussels and shellfish with their mouths open as if they had been boiled covered rocks and many starfish died.
Scientists have analyzed that more than 1 billion marine creatures have died in the past two weeks of severe heat waves, and that freshwater creatures such as salmon are also threatened.
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