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Grant Douglas pauses while evacuating as a wildfire reaches Highway 36 near Paynes Creek in Tehama County, California, July 26, 2024
THE world is on the road to ruin unless nations act to stop climate change, the United Nations (UN) warned yesterday.
The international body said that 2024 had “capped a decade of unprecedented heat fuelled by human activities.”
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which will publish official temperature figures for 2024 in January, said the year “saw record-breaking rainfall and flooding events and terrible loss of life in so many countries, causing heartbreak to communities on every continent.”
The recent heatwaves revealed how ill-prepared Britain remains for a hotter future – and how unequal the ability to cope with it has become, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
Coal-fired stoves in traditional homes are the primary source of extreme levels of air pollution in over-crowded Ulaanbaatar. As more people become climate-displaced, the situation is likely to worsen, write SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
