FILE PHOTO: Temperature and humidity are monitored in a medicine cabinet at a medical center in California on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health more subtly – by amplifying
LONDON: When it comes to measuring the impacts of the climate crisisallin66, we tend to fall upon two simple metrics: Human fatalities and economic losses. These data points are extremely useful for understanding what we would be exposing ourselves
The hottest year on record, 2023, was also the most extreme for wildfires, according to new research. Both the frequency and intensity of extreme wildfires have more than doubled in the last two decades, the study found. And when the ecological, soc