Fill in the Blanks 7-31-4Online version 7-31-4 by pamela lam 1 shattering published assets intelligence century revealed targeted displaced scores soaring flooded sparking highest exacerbated low heat unclassified settled permafrost torrential repress In climate news , a record - heatwave has over the Middle East , with temperatures across Iran , Iraq , Lebanon , Saudi Arabia and Syria . Baghdad recorded a high of more than 125 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday ? the temperature ever recorded in Iraq's capital city . Meanwhile a months - long Arctic wave in Siberia has spread to Norway and northern Canada , melting , wildfires and bringing Arctic sea ice extent to a historic . In Bangladesh , of people are dead , nearly a million homes and almost 5 million people , after monsoon rains left nearly a third of the country under water . New research in Scientific Reports finds coastal flooding by the climate crisis may damage worth up to $14 . 2 trillion by the end of the . The Washington Post has the Department of Homeland Security has compiled reports on two American journalists who published leaked documents related to the agency's tactics to protesters in Portland . The journalists were Mike Baker of the New York Times and Benjamin Wittes of the blog Lawfare .