A landmark global economic analysis, paired with a state-of-the-art heat solution cost-benefit calculator covering 11,408 cities worldwide, shows that investing in heat action saves billions in losses.
The BFI, Arts Council England, LIVE Green, and Julie’s Bicycle have partnered to roll out Cool Off in Culture, a UK-wide campaign signposting the public to cultural venues during increasingly frequent heatwaves.
In Somaliland, recurrent drought and climate shocks have severely disrupted livelihoods, leaving agro-pastoral communities struggling to sustain their income and food security. The women of Burao had watched the drought take almost everything.
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England is sweltering under an red heat health alert and could see its hottest June day on record. In North America, football fans and players are suffering, with a quarter of this summer’s World Cup matches forecast to be played in dangerous heat.
A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and polluted roads, a lush urban wetland is being built by an unusual and furry group of city residents: beavers.
Today’s post takes advantage of a quiet tropics to explain what ridge riding thunderstorms are, as you may be hearing a bit about those in addition to heat next week across a swath of the Central and Eastern U.S.
Install mobile flood barriers to keep flood waters out. Apply waterproof coatings to protect exteriors from water damage. Build raised entrances to increase thresholds above flood levels.
A senior Indian bureaucrat shared a copy of India’s Disaster Management Act with a Pakistani bureaucrat. What happened next was a cut,copy, paste job which made history in Pakistan’s policy circles.
