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June 2024 was the warmest June ever, marking the 13th straight month of record-breaking temperatures, according to the European climate service Copernicus. It also marked the 12th month in a row that the world was 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than pre-industrial times. “It's a stark warning that we are getting closer to this very important limit set by the Paris Agreement,” Copernicus senior climate scientist Nicolas Julien said in an interview. “The global temperature continues to increase. It has at a rapid pace.” That 1.5C temperature mark is important because it's the warming limit nearly al...
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High temperatures across the United States are the country's leading weather-related killer - and Joe Biden is taking action. This week, the president proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, while tens of millions of people in the US suffer under heat advisories. If the measure is finalised, it would protect an estimated 36 million workers across the country from injuries related to heat exposure on the job and would be the first major federal safety standard of its kind. Currently, those most affected by excessive heat in the workplace include farmworkers, delivery and...
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Hurricane Beryl has strengthened into the highest level category 5 storm, sweeping across several islands in the south eastern Caribbean and killing at least six people. On Tuesday, it barrelled through Carriacou, an island in Grenada leaving three dead and killing another in St Vincent in the Grenadines. Two more deaths were reported in northern Venezuela and five more people have been reported missing. Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told a news briefing that, "In half an hour, Carriacou was flattened.” It is now roaring towards Jamaica with residents scrambling to prepare for the pow...
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Two people were killed after a powerful storm swept through Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro on Tuesday morning. Days of sizzling temperatures damaged houses, pulled out trees and flooded streets, according to officials as the storm sent temperatures plummeting. The extreme weather in Eastern Europe comes after a heavy storm in Switzerland and northern Italy caused extensive flooding and landslides, leaving at least four people dead, according to local authorities. One worker died at a construction site in the Montenegrin coastal town of Canj, while another person died from a lightning ...
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Firefighters battled wildfires that broke out on the eastern Aegean islands of Chios and Kos on Monday. The blazes injured five people and Greece's prime minister has warned of a dangerous summer ahead saying the public's help was essential in limiting the impact of wildfires. Emergency services issued evacuation orders for those in the Metohi area of western Chios on Monday morning, urging them to head to a nearby beach. By the evening, more than 140 firefighters, along with eight teams of firefighters specialising in wildfires, seven water-dropping planes and three helicopters were fighting ...
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After a hot early summer that saw heatwaves followed by major flooding hit Europe last month, extreme weather conditions have continued across the continent. Authorities in Poland mobilised emergency services on Monday after roads and basements flooded in Zakopane and nearby towns. Firefighters were also called to intervene in many places. Flooding caused by a cloudburst made the Zakopianka route connecting the Tatra Mountains to Krakow impassable for several hours. The extreme weather event also affected neighbouring Austria, where a thunderstorm with heavy rain hit the municipalities of Wald...
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The putrid smell of burning rubbish wafts for miles from the landfill on the outskirts of the Indian city of Jammu - a potentially toxic miasma fed by the waste generated by some 740,000 people. Some citizens, though, have no choice but to ignore both the fumes and suffocating heat to sort through the rubbish. They’re forced to try to find anything at all of value to sell in order to earn, at best, the equivalent of €3.70 a day. “If we don’t do this, we don’t get any food to eat," 65-year-old Usmaan Shekh explains. “We try to take a break for a few minutes when it gets too hot, but mostly we j...
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Mark Rutte has made it! NATO finally appointed the outgoing Dutch prime minister as its next boss. This move became a formality after his only rival for the post, Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, quit the race, his bid having failed to gain traction. NATO leaders will officially welcome him to their table at a summit in Washington in a little over a week. For Ukraine, the appointment of Rutte, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin who described the so-called Russian peace plan as "absolutely crazy", was great news. And there was more good news for Kyiv this week. The EU formally opened talks on...
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London carried out a training exercise to test its ability to cope with 40C heat on Thursday. Named ‘Operation Helios’ after the Greek god of the sun, it explored a scenario where extreme heat hits the capital for five days - one scientists warn could be a reality as early as 2027. It was led by Greater London Authority’s London Resilience Unit and involved more than 80 participants from emergency services to local government, environment agencies and transport companies. It comes after the London Climate Resilience Review published a report in March which recommended that the city test its pr...
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Heatwave warnings are already coming thick and fast across Europe this summer, as experts predict another record-hot year driven by climate change. But it can be hard to gauge how dangerous they are to you in particular. A new tool seeks to bridge that gap by forecasting how likely you are to die when hot weather hits different places in Europe. The data is based on age and sex. Around 70,000 people died from heat-related causes during summer 2022 in Europe, according to researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The same team has taken past mortality data and combine...
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