Heat Waves Show Climate Change Is Here

A marine scientist takes her daughter to Paris for a graduation trip and lands in the middle of a record-shattering heat wave—then comes home to a California coastline running its own quiet fever. From melting kelp forests to a Louvre with restricted hours, one family vacation becomes a firsthand tour of a warming world, and a reminder that the ocean, our best defense against climate change, is under threat just when we need it most.