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Rising Temperatures Bring New Risk to Japanese Landslides Survivors

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Survivors and search crews in southwestern Japan are now facing another obstacle in the struggle to recover from last week's devastating landslides: extreme heat. Authorities are increasingly worried about heat-related illnesses with temperatures rising as high as 35 degrees Celsius, a situation aggravated by damaged infrastructure that has cut off water and electricity to hundreds of thousands of residents. At least 155 people have now been confirmed dead as a result of the...

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