‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted

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Washington wildfires force hospital closures, patient evacuations: 6 things to know

Washington wildfires force hospital closures and patient evacuations in Spokane, impacting VA and MultiCare facilities amid emergency response efforts.

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Extreme Heat and Human Health in India: A Silent Threat in the Era of Climate Change

Extreme Heat and Human Health in India: A Silent Threat in the Era of Climate Change

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‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted

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Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

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Thousands of people under evacuation order from wildfires in Spokane, Wash.

There are at least three fires in and around the city. Large parts of Spokane are under Level 3 evacuation orders, which read: "Leave NOW! This may be your only notice."

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Human-caused climate change made Spanish, French fires much more likely, scientists calculate

Two new studies reveal climate change's fingerprints over extreme fire weather-triggering infernos in Spain and France.

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How Wildfire Smoke Is Reshaping Childhood - Inside Climate News

Smoky summers are becoming the new normal across the American West, forcing a generation of children to grow up indoors.

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Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

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Climate crisis-driven heat ‘sucking soils dry’ as extreme drought hits Europe

Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generation

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Extreme Heat Is Making Us Sadder (And Sicker)

A study the media largely ignored suggests that suicide rates may increase as the planet's temperature does.

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The Fraud of “Clean” Natural Gas | Center for Climate Integrity

How Big Oil and Gas Created the Myth that Natural Gas is a Climate Solution

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Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years - Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health

Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels ...

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Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers' pollution

A new study finds dozens of heat waves would be "virtually impossible" without the activity of major fossil fuel producers, including oil companies.

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'People are at risk': Europe urged to invest in healthcare as heatwaves intensify

The heatwave gripping Europe is putting people's health at risk, and the continent's leaders must invest in making their health services more climate-resilient, the WHO chief said Wednesday.

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Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

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WHO Urges Europe to Heat-Proof Hospitals as Deadly Heatwave Grips the Continent

The World Health Organization issued new guidance on Thursday aimed at helping European countries withstand increasingly severe heatwaves, as this summer's

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Gulf of Maine sees first open-water ocean alkalinity enhancement field trial in US

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Health bill hits $15 billion each year from private equity-backed fossil fuels in the U.S.

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Statement: In victory for clean air, judge orders EPA to implement protections from soot

Soot is made of microscopic particles that can lodge deep in the lungs and cause a variety of serious or fatal health problems.

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From 'Super El Niño' to Europe’s extreme heatwave: How this year's weather shocks are rattling commodity markets

Markets are underestimating the impact of climate volatility on a range of asset classes, commodity strategists say.

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Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors - Nature

Climate change made 213 historical heatwaves reported over 2000–2023 more likely and more intense, to which each of the 180 carbon majors (fossil fuel and cement producers) substantially contributed.

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