Some really impressive graphics from the Reuters Climate Monitor showing the scale of what's happening with heat in Western Europe this summer www.reuters.com/graphics/CLI... #heatwave #extremeheat #Europe @reuters.com

It's a brutal summer, and nowhere more than in sweltering kitchens. For the women working in them, in places such as India, the heat is becoming deadly - but for most women there's no alternative to being there #extremeheat #women #India

As kitchen heat grows unbearable, Indian women find ‘there is no escape’ - Hera

As India endures brutal summer temperatures, the most punishing heat many women face is not on the street but at their own stove

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More than 20,000 dead in Europe's June heatwave - and this is just the start of summer

Inside World Cup stadiums, players are getting protections from extreme heat. But what about those working outside?

‘I have to risk it’: Street vendors bake outside steamy World Cup stadiums

Thousands of World Cup street vendors are trying to make a living in increasingly severe heat without the protections that players and fans have

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Nighttime temperatures are rising even faster than daytime ones, making it harder to sleep. That is affecting everything from our safety and productivity at work to our mental health and relationships. Nice to see the BBC looking at this #extremeheat #LCAW

The Climate Question - Is climate change ruining our sleep? - BBC Sounds

How the rise in night-time temperatures is starting to disrupt our sleep and health

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It's quite a thing to be at London Climate Action Week, talking about extreme heat risk, amid a brutal heatwave in London and Europe that is showing us how unprepared we are for the heat that we'll be seeing more of every year. Look at Paris - baking at 16C above "normal". lnkd.in/g7Yd-Adc #LCAW

What will a super El Nino mean in places already battling temperatures near 50 degree Celsius (122 Fahrenheit)? “It’s highly questionable whether people will be able to cope under this new scenario," says Nausheen Anwar of @iied.bsky.social

As a super El Niño nears, already sweltering cities face ‘shocking’ temperature hikes - Hera

When summer temperatures inch toward 50 degree Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) in Jacobabad, a particularly sweltering city in southern Pakistan, families construct woven mat beds outside their homes...

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How much are today's temperatures different from the historical average? Now you can see that anywhere in the world, down to fine scale, thanks to this interesting new tool from @thomsonreutersnews.bsky.social Worth a look!

Reuters Climate Monitor

How today's temperatures compare to the historic average

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Come see our screening in Furzedown next Thursday, 30 April, 7:30 pm at the Furzedown Project

National Emergency Briefing@nebriefing.bsky.social · 5mo ago

What if the whole country saw the full picture? This is a national emergency. The impacts are already here. But the solutions exist. Communities are watching the People’s Emergency Briefing and discussing what to do next with neighbours and MPs #EarthDay Screenings www.nebriefing.org/screening-map

Climate change and nature loss affect your living costs, health, safety and food security. Learn what you can do to become more resilient! Don't miss this film and discussion at the Furzedown Project on 30 April (with tea and cake!) @tootingnewsie.bsky.social #climatechange

Need an answer from an expert about extreme heat threats and adaptations as you develop a policy or program or work on an article? Here's a new place to ask #extremeheat #climatechange

Pregnant women in East Africa - and many other parts of the world - increasingly face a terrible choice: Stay home and go hungry, or keep working through extreme heat and risk losing their babies #extremeheat #women #Africa #climatechange #maternalhealth

Lost children: Heat extremes linked to miscarriages in Uganda - Hera

Extreme heat in Kampala is increasing the risk of miscarriages among pregnant women, as rising temperatures, dehydration, and economic pressures force many to work in dangerous conditions, exposing a ...

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"Indigenous women working in plantations and factories face major heat-related illnesses... as rising temperatures intensify climate inequality." Nice piece from Cambodia #extremeheat #climatechange #Cambodia #women

Female Agricultural, Garment Workers’ Health at Serious Risk As Temperatures Rise in Cambodia

Indigenous women working in plantations and factories face major heat-related illnesses from breathing difficulties, dizziness, and vomiting as rising temperatures intensify climate inequality. Expert...

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Like other women in her rural community in southern Mozambique, Adelaide Macuacua has long lived with drought, floods, water shortages and poverty. Now another pressure is adding to the burden: Extreme heat www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real... #extremeheat #women #Africa #Mozambique ​

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are working at home. But what does that mean as extreme heat takes hold and not everyone can afford to install or pay for cooling? Rachel Parsons takes a look #extremeheat #women #cooling #health

More heat, no air-con: At-home workers face threat as temperatures soar

Worsening extreme heat is making working hours less comfortable - and in some cases even dangerous - for more home-based workers around the world, whose numbers have surged since the COVID-19 pandemic

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"Across Sierra Leone in 2025, extreme heat has become one of the country’s most serious yet under-recognised threats, unlike floods or landslides that leave visible destruction" africa24newspaper.com/from-fields-...

Don't miss this eye-opening look at how climate change impacts - including extreme heat - are increasing the pressures for child marriage in Indonesia #extremeheat #women #Indonesia #climatechange

Under the Intensifying Heat: Poverty and Child Marriage in Seluma - Bincang Perempuan

Climate change is intensifying poverty and driving child marriage in Seluma, Bengkulu. This in-depth report explores how extreme heat, crop failure, .

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Think summer extreme heat is bad where you live? These northern Nigerian refugees fleeing from extremist bandits sleep 50 to a school classroom, in 47 degree C conditions #extremeheat #climatechange #women

Displaced Women in Nigeria Suffer Extreme Heat that “Feels Like Dying” – EcoPivot

Under a patch of semi-shade, Fatima Abdullahi, 36, pulled her child closer against the afternoon heat. She remembered vividly the night of July 16, 2025. Her body temperature climbed until she could n...

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Great to see this reporting by Nyima Sillah - one of the West African journalists trained on extreme heat journalism by Climate Resilience for All - on how ever-hotter conditions are hitting both the health and incomes of market women in The Gambia #extremeheat #journalism

Inside Gambian women vendors’ battle with extreme heat

Gambian women vendors endure physical and emotional struggles daily, battling with their own bodies to keep supporting their families while navigating the oppressive heat, limited infrastructure, and ...

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Wow! Great extreme heat and health conference in last week by the University of Copenhagen School of Public Health and the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. Thanks for letting me add my two cents worth too....

Extreme heat is bringing big rises in pre-eclampsia, stillbirths, premature births and other worries for pregnant women and their babies www.climateresilience.org/maternal-new... #extremeheat #health #maternalhealth #climate @lshtm.bsky.social

Extreme heat brings fast-rising risks for pregnant women and babies

Worsening extreme heat exposure globally is driving hikes in health threats from premature birth to pre-eclampsia

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Are you a journalist living in Southeast Asia who wants to know how to report more effectively on increasingly extreme heat? Here's your chance to join our training in Bangkok in October. Apply by Sept. 17! lnkd.in/eaDYuNbp

Here are some ideas about how to better portray heat - an invisible threat - in images: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...

10 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals

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Ed Maibach@maibached.bsky.social · last yr.

3 thoughts: A) @nytimes.com, it’s lame to feature a sunbather in this story. B) Heat kills, especially early in heat season. Be careful. C) Most importantly, tell @EPA we need LESS not MORE heat-trapping gas & mercury pollution. Public comment period ends Aug 7. @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Here's how to change that - some guidelines for photographing extreme heat: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...

9 Guidelines for Effective Extreme Heat Visuals

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · last yr.

Nothing really captures the risk of deadly levels of heat leading to thousands of excruciating fatalities quite like a nice snap of two people enjoying the lovely weather under an umbrella.

A lovely story about how rethinking a village's water - and rights to it - can have huge benefits for women, especially those facing extreme heat and drought. Thanks to co-publishers The Migration Story! #extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women www.climateresilience.org/blazing-real...

Shared work, shared water: Water cooperation eases extreme heat, drought risk for Indian women

Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

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Want to improve communication about climate change and health issues? There's a job open at the @wmo-global.bsky.social that might suit you... erecruit.wmo.int/public/hrd-c... #health #climatechange #extremeheat

Interesting and well presented tool on climate disinformation

Tortoise@tortoisemedia.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing Hot Air, a publicly-available interactive database and visualisation tool highlighting the volume of online misinformation surrounding climate change. Developed in partnership with C3DS University of Exeter and supported by Octopus Energy. 👇 torto.se/4j0NNY4

Too hot in Australia and need some personalised advice on how to cope? Here's an app for you

Sydney Environment Institute@seisydney.bsky.social · 2y ago

The HeatWatch tool, developed by the Heat and Health Research Centre at University of Sydney, offers: 🔥 Personalised profiles to estimate individual heat stress risk 🔥 Hourly forecasts of heat health 🔥 Evidence-based advice on effective and ineffective cooling strategies heatwatch.sydney.edu.au

Way too much of what we think we know about managing extreme heat is wrong. Here's a lab setting some things straight @heathealth.info #extremeheat

Solutions-oriented Sydney heat lab tests ‘the limits of human survival’

At a University of Sydney lab, researchers are testing the limits of human comfort and survivability in current and future extreme heat

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Does ULEZ work? Have a look at the air quality improvements by borough

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 2y ago

Since the expansion of ULEZ across London, boroughs in outer London have seen some of the biggest benefits in air quality. See how outer London got greener: