As Earth's high north blazes with intense wildfires, Europe's heat is about to invade the Arctic

As the Suomi NPP satellite watched overhead on July 21, 2019, a swirling low-pressure system over Siberia pulled wildfire smoke into its giant vortex . (Source: NASA Earth Observatory) Heat records were obliterated across Western Europe yesterday, with Paris reaching an unfathomable all-time high of nearly 109 degrees. It's the second heat wave in the region in as many months — and this one has been even more brutal than June's. As I wrote earlier this week, research shows that human-cau

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