Legionnaire’s disease – coming to a town near you
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
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
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?
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,...
Crops being hit hard by climate change and why we should be worried
Farmers are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, which has a direct impact on crop yields. Lower yields, caused by climate change, could drive up food prices by more than a third by 2050. British farmers are, of course, not the only people who are suffering...
