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Throughout April and continuing into May 2024, extreme record-breaking heat led to severe impacts across the Asian continent.

Across this vast area of land, encompassing Europe, Asia and North America, surface air temperatures were more than 2°C higher in June, July and August 2023 than the average summer temperature between AD1 and 1890, as reconstructed from tree ring records.

Over 200 million more elderly people worldwide are expected to face dangerous heat exposure by 2050, compared to now.

Dozens of wildfires are burning across Canada in May 2024 and sending unhealthy smoke blowing into the northern U.S. again. At the same time, the southeastern U.S. is getting smoke from Mexico, where drought conditions have been fueling fires.

This child-friendly Comprehensive School Safety Framework is expected to be comprehensible for chidren.

One of the largest geomagnetic storms in several decades has caused a spectacular light show in skies around the world and highlighted the importance of forecasts of potentially disruptive space weather events

This paper provides an empirical illustration of this trap using the example of flash flood risk in Kuwait and shows how decisions on urban planning and economic restructuring have increased flash flood risk.

Caribbean islands are in a water crisis, and their governments have warned that water scarcity may become the new norm.