A Sustainable Life: If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $A700 extra a year to keep your house cool
Writing in the Australian context, SEBASTIAN PFAUTSCH and RICCARDO PAOLINI, in an article first published on The Conversation, look at the impact dark rooves can have on power costs…
Heat-related deaths could more than quadruple by mid-century – report
Reuters Heat-related illnesses and deaths are rising as the world warms, an international team of health experts said on Tuesday, forecasting a 370 per cent surge in yearly heat deaths by mid-century if the world warms by two degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Already, at roughly 1.1 degrees Celsius of warming, people experienced about 86 […]
Postcards: Changing climate pushes migrating birds from parched Tunisian wetlands
JIHED ABIDELLAOUI, of Reuters, reports from Tunis…
Italian farmer battles frost, floods, heat and hail in epic year
Forli, Italy Reuters Farmer Andrea Ferrini is on the frontline of climate change in Italy and it is hurting. First his fruit and corn crops in northern Italy withered in a hard frost, then they were hit by torrential rains and record flooding, followed by an exceptional heatwave and finally hail storms. A farmer stands […]
World broke hottest-day record three times last week – US agency
São Paulo, BrazilReuters The world recorded its hottest day ever on Thursday, breaking previous highs set last Monday and Tuesday as global average temperatures continue to climb, according to data from the US National Centers on Environmental Prediction. The global average temperature hit 17.23 degrees Celsius on Thursday, according to the government agency. The record comes days after intense heatwaves in […]
“Feels like summer”: Warm winter breaks temperature records in Europe
London, UK/Brussels, Belgium Reuters Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for faster action against climate change while offering short-term respite to governments struggling with high gas prices. Hundreds of sites have seen temperature records smashed in the past days, from Switzerland to Poland to Hungary, […]
China’s farmers struggle to save crops as heatwave, drought drag on
Chongqing, China Reuters As the tinder-dry countryside along China’s Yangtze river basin withers under a heatwave that has lasted more than two months, veteran farmer Chen Xiaohua recalled the last severe drought to hit his crops more than 60 years ago. “This year is drier than 1960,” said Chen, 68, from his plot of land […]
Egypt: Cairo’s street trees fall foul of urban development drive
MENNA A FAROUK, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on protests by Cairo residents and environmentalists over tree-felling, which come as Egypt’s government prepares to host the COP27 climate summit in November…
Poor workers bear the brunt of India’s heatwave
Noida, IndiaReuters For construction worker Yogendra Tundre, life at a building site on the outskirts of the Indian capital New Delhi is hard enough. This year, record high temperatures are making it unbearable. As India grapples with an unprecedented heatwave, the country’s vast majority of poor workers, who generally work outdoors, are vulnerable to the […]
Health Insight: Three tips for preventing heat stroke
With much of the northern hemisphere facing blistering conditions this summer, primary care physician US-based GABRIEL NEAL, in an article first published on The Conversation, provides some timely advice…