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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Nicola Slawson

First Thing: July likely to be hottest month on record, says Nasa

A billboard displays a temperature of 118 F (48C)  in Phoenix, Arizona
A billboard displays a temperature of 118 F (48C) in Phoenix, Arizona. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

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July is likely to be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, Gavin Schmidt, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters yesterday, as a persistent heatwave baked swaths of the US south.

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