Roni and John pour water on themselves to cool off from extreme heat while residing in"The Zone," a vast homeless encampment where hundreds of people reside, during a record heat wave in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 19, 2023.
Locked in a record-breaking streak of 25 consecutive days with temperatures over 110 degrees Fahrenheit, residents of, are struggling to endure conditions that scientists say will become more common thanks to climate change. Researchers at World Weather Attribution said Tuesday that the extreme July heatwave that has gripped the southwestern United States and another in southern Europe“Had there been no climate change, such an event would almost never have occurred,” Mariam Zachariah, a climate scientist at Imperial College of London and the lead author of the study, told the Associated Press.