New York, July 10 (RHC)-- Media reports say that 2024 is on track to become the hottest year in human history, after scientists confirmed June set another global heat record, putting the planet on a 13-month record-breaking streak.

In the United States, the extreme temperatures are set to continue all this week, especially across southern and western states. 

In Phoenix, Arizona, heat-related deaths have nearly doubled since the same period last year, with 175 deaths likely due to heat recorded so far.

Elsewhere, heavy monsoon rains and flash floods in Nepal have been linked to at least 47 deaths.  In Indonesia, torrential downpours triggered a deadly landslide at an illegal gold mining site on Sulawesi island.  Authorities say at least 23 people have been killed, with dozens of others missing.

In the U.S. state of California, advocates are demanding justice for a woman who died while incarcerated at a prison in Chowchilla as a blistering heat wave swept across the region. 

The woman died over the weekend, two days after being hospitalized.  Her cause of death is still undetermined, but the group California Coalition for Women Prisoners blamed prison neglect and heat exhaustion. 

They said the woman “became incoherent” and “dropped to the ground” while she took a shower to try to cool off.  The group has received several other reports of unbearable heat inside the Central California Women’s Facility with people suffering “widespread headaches, vomiting and other dangerous physical symptoms.”