ClimateChange - Animal Agriculture and Climate Change

What you need to know about heatwaves

Heatwaves have grown hotter and stronger as the planet has warmed. How worried should we be about heat – and how can we stay safe as the climate changes? Hot weather kills an estimated half a million people each year. The average annual death toll is greater than that...

Back to school in unbearable heat

ClimateChange

As schools are returning to session, districts are faced with a new problem: how to handle increasingly extreme heatwaves, both in and outside the classroom. Unbearably hot days are no longer just a summer problem. In the US districts from the north-east to the...

Legionnaire’s disease – coming to a town near you

ClimateChange, HealthyLiving

You may never have heard of Legionnaire’s disease, but we are going to see more and more outbreaks as climate change continues to heat the planet. Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that...

Deforestation has killed over half a million people over 20 years

AnimalAgri, ClimateChange

Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it...

Brazil issues plea for countries to submit climate plans ahead of Cop30

ClimateChange

André Corrêa do Lago, who will preside over Cop30, wants proposals submitted before a UN meeting in September. Only 28 countries have so far submitted carbon-cutting proposals to the UN, with some of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases – including China and the...

Are we entering the age of non-tourism?

ClimateChange, Blogs

Do heatwaves, wildfires and travel costs signal the end of the holiday abroad? A leading researcher forecasts the ‘beginning of the age of non-tourism’. It was a prediction nobody wanted to hear. On the main stage of the world’s biggest tourism fair, Stefan Gössling,...