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A superyacht that sank off the coast of Sicily was likely struck by a waterspout made stronger by climate change, meteorologists have said. Waterspouts are whirling columns of air and water mist, and the Bayesian is believed to have been hit by a powerful one in the early hours of Monday morning. Three people, including Canadian-Antiguan chef Recaldo Thomas, are confirmed to have died. Two bodies were recovered from the wreck this afternoon, and four people remain missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter, Hannah. The boat is at a depth of 50m and is ...
Euronews (English)
A top humanitarian charity has revealed how climate change is dealing a “double blow” to life-saving aid attempts, as it simultaneously multiplies health risks and makes humanitarian interventions more challenging and complex to implement. In a new report, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has revealed how humanitarian workers and communities are managing to adapt to the many and complex challenges of climate change. Much is known about the ill effects of the climate crisis on human health, but relatively little attention has been paid to the issues facing aid workers helping those who are suffer...
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As the world continues to heat up, close to half a billion children globally are living in regions that experience at least twice as many extremely hot days as their grandparents did. That’s according to new research by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The findings highlight the rapid escalation of extreme heat events, laying bare the fact that one in five children - that’s around 466 million - are exposed to these often dangerous conditions every year. UNICEF compared data from the 1960s with the average temperatures from 2020-2024. In the process, they discovered a dramatic incre...
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By Hans Nicholas Jong JAKARTA — Civil society groups and communities most affected by the effects of climate change are calling on the Indonesian government to include them in the decision-making process of climate policies. Groups such as those representing the urban poor and the disabled say they haven’t been meaningfully involved in the process, particularly the drafting of Indonesia’s revised goals and commitments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement. Every country that has signed up to the Paris climate deal must submit a list of these commitments, known as...
Mongabay
Blistering heat killed more than 47,000 people in Europe last year, scientists have found. 2023 was the hottest year on record, and the second hottest in Europe, as fossil fuels continue to increase greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. A disaster on a vast scale, the heat-related death toll is nonetheless lower than in 2022, when more than 61,000 people died in Europe, according to the same analysis from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The researchers also found that heat-related mortality would have been 80 per cent higher last year without the introduction o...
Euronews (English)
Greece is confronting another dangerous summer, with firefighters battling a major forest fire just northeast of Athens on Monday. Hospitals and residential suburbs had to be evacuated as the fire that began near Varnava village on Sunday (11 August) tore through pine forests left tinder-dry by repeated heatwaves. June and July were the hottest months ever recorded in Greece, and proved fatal for several tourists earlier this summer. There is no doubt that the Mediterranean country is on the frontlines of human-caused climate change in Europe. Last year, it was scalded by a record long heatwav...
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The Hong Kong government has warned residents travelling to Japan to stay alert after the country issued a “megaquake” advisory in response to a 7.1 magnitude tremor last Thursday. In a Chinese statement issued on Monday afternoon, the government noted that it was currently the summer holiday season and Japan was among Hongkongers’ favourite travel destinations. “The SAR government reminds Hong Kong people planning to go to Japan, or who are in Japan, to stay alert, be mindful of safety, and pay attention to the Japanese government’s latest announcements,” the statement read. Japan’s Miyazaki ...
Hong Kong Free Press
Amidst the growing political divide that we are witnessing across the global West, leaders have failed to turn their attention effectively to the mounting danger of the climate crisis. Climate change poses a threat not only in Africa and the developing world more broadly but also worldwide, requiring immediate attention and substantial time and investment. Increased flooding, rising temperatures, extreme weather, and depleted resources are just a few of the dangers facing humanity, leading to some of the greatest migrations of people from country to country in human history. The UK itself face...
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The Maldives is a tropical paradise with endless white beaches, crystal clear waters and stunning resorts. Millions of travellers flock here every year seeking rest and recuperation, with 2023 seeing record arrivals, up 12 per cent on the year before. The trend has continued in 2024, with tourist arrivals up by 10 per cent compared to the same period last year. This is good news for the country’s 550,000 citizens, the majority of whom rely on tourism for their income. But behind the scenes of luxury resorts, they face another struggle: being on the frontlines of the climate crisis. There’s no ...
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Spain has sweltered under three heatwaves so far this summer, with temperatures reaching up to 43C in the southeast. But it's the heat of the sea that has some experts especially concerned. The Mediterranean "is on fire" meteorologist Marta Almarcha wrote in a post for Spain’s eltiempo.es weather portal yesterday. Last week, a sea surface temperature of 30C was recorded by a tide gauge in Pollença, Mallorca. Coastal areas around France and western Italy are also setting very high temperatures for this time of year. In fact, almost the entire Mediterranean basin is suffering a marine heatwave, ...
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