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The costs of extreme weather events such as floods, bushfires and storms have nearly tripled in Australia since the 1990s, insurers have warned, with poorer communities…

blinking-dotLive updatesLive updates, Israeli attacks kill dozens more Palestinians in Gaza City as the death toll surges during its widely criticised ground invasion.Published On 18 Sep…

Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities…

Bud Moses is all too aware of the longer, hotter summers impacting his community in Sydney’s west.As black summer bushfires raged on 4 January 2020, Penrith…

On a recent Friday morning, I found myself in a sea of bodies waiting to be admitted to Universal’s new $7 billion Orlando theme park, Epic…

It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride…

September 4, 20255 min readKids from Marginalized Communities Are Learning in the Hottest ClassroomsThe first national study of its kind shows that children from marginalized communities…

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging?A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of…

Keith Serry was set to bring a show to New York City’s Fringe festival this year, but pulled the plug a few weeks out. After 35…

Repeated exposure to heatwaves is accelerating ageing in people, according to a study. The impact is broadly comparable with the damage smoking, alcohol use, poor diet…