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Heat Wave, Montreal
Climate change is here, in Europe, and it kills. This is the warning of 69 contributors of the 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown , published today in the Lancet Public Health.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
A new study finds broader surveillance and modelling of chemical changes produced by wildfires, could inform strategies for protecting lives, property, and natural resources, and managing wildlife.
Stanford University
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This report aims to raise awareness about the range of risks to human health associated with changes in water quantity and quality under the changing climate.
A man cooling himself off under a water pipe in Bajgladesh.
Climate change is worsening floods, droughts and is reducing water quality, posing an increasing threat to our health, according to a European Environment Agency (EEA) report published today.
European Environment Agency
Meg Parsons
Community engagement is just as important as research and policymaking for successful efforts to adapt to the impacts of climate change and reduce disaster risks. Discover the climate resilience toolkit that includes a range of art activities.
Green sprout growing on the coals after a fire showing resilience.
In a recent study, a team led by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California was able to detect signs of flash droughts up to three months before onset. In the future, such advance notice could aid mitigation efforts.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Throughout April and continuing into May 2024, extreme record-breaking heat led to severe impacts across the Asian continent.
World Weather Attribution
Tree rings show historic climatic changes
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.
Conversation Media Group, the

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