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Hospitals are on the front line as rising temperatures linked to burning fossil fuels lead to more intense and more frequent extreme weather. How can they remain fully functional in the face of flooding and heat waves?
According to data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, the Amazon saw 13,489 wildfires in the first half of the year — up more than 61% compared to the same period last year.
In 2023 alone, wildfires in Europe scorched an area around twice the size of Luxembourg, causing more than €4 billion in damages and releasing the equivalent to nearly a third of all annual emissions from international aviation in the EU.
Communities across southern Germany have been forced to evacuate, and many have issued states of emergency as severe flooding hit the region this weekend.
Taiwan sits on a boundary of tectonic plates, and its long history of catastrophic quakes has forced the island to improve its building construction and design-related technologies.
Seismologists and disaster management experts have warned Kashmir is at risk of a looming human tragedy if it doesn't urgently earthquake-proof its infrastructure.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach says Germany is not properly prepared for heatwaves, which have become more severe as a result of climate change.
Experts have called for urgent action to prepare vulnerable communities and protect them from the scorching heat's disastrous impacts.