Climate change raising heat risks for workers, experts warn
Rising global temperatures are increasing the risk of workers dying or becoming disabled from laboring in extreme heat, an international conference has been told. The conference, held in Qatar as spring temperatures raced towards 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), heard…
Here are the places most at risk from record-shattering heat – The Indian Express
Written by Raymond Zhong Global warming is making dangerously hot weather more common, and more extreme, on every continent. A new study by researchers in Britain takes a unique approach to identifying which places are most at risk. When the…
‘The Last of Us’ Is Right. Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish.
“The Last of Us,” a postapocalyptic television thriller, recently concluded its first season with a stunning finale. However, as a physician and horror superfan, I found the show’s beginning more striking: A 1960s talk-show host asks two epidemiologists what keeps…
Climate change may explain mysterious collapse of Hittite Empire, study finds – The Times of Israel
PARIS — Three years of extreme drought may have brought about the collapse of the mighty Hittite Empire around 1200 BCE, researchers have said, linking the plight of the fallen civilization to the modern world’s climate crisis. The Hittites dominated…
A newborn held aloft in Pakistan sums up the sheer injustice of the climate crisis | Fatima Bhutto
This summer, intense monsoon rains combined with glacial melt caused super-floods across Pakistan. We are home to the second largest number of glaciers after the polar regions and, thanks to global heating, they are melting at unprecedented, terrifying speed. This…
The Climate Scaremongers: UK Health Chief’s Nonsensical Claims Of Doom
We are used to silly, irresponsible climate scare stories from the BBC and the papers, but when they come from the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency it is quite another matter. According to the Guardian last week: ‘The climate crisis…
Global warming: Indians say it’s real and want concrete action – India Today
By Yashwant Deshmukh, Anthony Leiserowitz, Sutanu Guru, Jagadish Thaker: An exclusive survey conducted by CVoter for the Yale University’s Program on Climate Change Communication finds that Indians recognize that global warming is happening and is a serious threat. In fact,…
âEurope will witness more extreme megadroughts in the years aheadâ
Down To Earth speaks to climate historian Christian Pfister from the University of Berne about Europe’s tryst with drought this year, in the past and the future
Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change – Nature.com
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Here Is Why Reducing Carbon Footprint Must Be A Priority For Everyone – Indiatimes.com
Around heads of 120 countries all over the world met at the Conference Of Parties (COP) 26 convened by the UK and Italy in Glasgow. The agenda of this annual event was to sit, discuss and review how the climate…
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