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Displaying 1170 of about 1170 resultsNEW YORK, 29 September2015 - Plans to bring early warning systems to some of the world’s poorest countries and thereby curb the risk of disasters have cleared a new milestone, thanks to a French-spurred initiative unveiled at the United Nations today.
“The goal is that by 2020, all of the most vulnerable countries are equipped with such a system,” said…
By Robbin Ray and Beth Potier
The road to longevity is paved with thicker asphalt
As the summer months heat up, so will the asphalt and other materials used to make roads. Pavements, which are vulnerable to increased temperatures and excessive flooding due to sea level rise — both predicted to increase due to climate change — can crack and crumble. N…
By Low Youjin
SINGAPORE — By 2045, Singaporeans could face some days of the year when temperatures soar as high as a scorching 40°C.
At best, this sweltering scenario could be delayed to as late as 2065 onwards, based on simulations conducted by a team of scientists at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore, which is part of the Meteorological Serv…
By Ivana Kottasová
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"Healthy people in general are okay in hot weather as long as they take some precautions, but when it starts getting to about 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) even healthy people are at risk," said Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, which is…
By Friederike Otto and Luke Harrington
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human-induced climate change.
Research into heatwaves across the world has confirmed that increasing trends in frequency, duration and cumulative heat have accelerate…
By Kristy Dahl and Juan Declet-Barreto
Over the last 30 days, hundreds of daily high temperature records have been broken across the United States, and extreme heat is expected to continue across much of the Southeast and Southern Great Plains regions this week. In a new analysis, detailed below, UCS evaluated the current COVID…
By Jim Salinger and Lisa Alexander
A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more frequent, more intense, and longer.
The research is based on a dataset known as HadEX…
By Chloe Brimicombe
Extreme heat could kill 5,000 people each year in the UK by the 2050s.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause suffering around the world, but another killer has silently struck in summer 2020. With relatively little by way of official warning or advice on how people can stay safe, recent heatwaves may have cost thousands of…
By Nilesh Bakshi, Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; and Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Architecture, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer you…
September will be remembered as a month of extremes: Historic wildfires burned across the West, unprecedented tropical activity churned up the Atlantic, and parts of the country saw record heat.
What’s more, the first nine months of 2020 brought a record-tying 16 billion-dollar weather disasters to the nation, according to scientists wit…
A long-term warming trend from the burning of coal, oil and gas is supercharging extreme weather events, putting Australian lives, our economy and our environment at risk.
The Climate Council’s new report, ‘Dangerous Summer: Escalating Bushfire, Heat and Drought Risk‘, has found this summer is shaping up as a terrible trifecta of heatwaves, drought and…
A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in April and May 2024. As temperatures climbed past 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) in India on May 7, campaigning politicians, local news announcers and voters waiting in long lines passed out from the oppressive heat.From as far north as Japan to as far south as the Philippines, the…
Waters across the Atlantic's tropical belt - extending from the coast of Africa through the Caribbean - are hotter now than in any other late May on record, with over 90% of the area's sea surface engulfed in record or near-record warmth. The extent of marine heat has never been greater heading into a hurricane season, outpacing by wide margins the…
This report examines the consequences and risks of extreme heat through a human rights lens and offers concrete recommendations for actions that can be taken - starting now - to protect populations from harm. Climate Rights International compiled this report to identify and understand the many different rights that are put at risk by rising temperatures…
Is climate action on extreme heat a human right?It was a provocative opening question that I posed to the science education graduate students in my climate justice course at San José State University. Put another way: Is a government's failure to take action on the climate crisis a violation of human rights?The question of human rights, climate justice,…