PBS News Weekly: Climate change and raging wildfires | Aug. 2, 2024 

This week, severe weather and heat have punished different regions of the world, even affecting athletes and spectators at the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. An active fire season has seen blazes rage cross the Western U.S., fueled in part by record-breaking heat. PBS News Weekly takes a look at the wider effects of severe weather and drought and what these events reveal about our changing climate.
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