Environment ❯ Climate Change

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Europe-Wide Study Finds Wealthier Regions Face Higher Heat Mortality

Urbanization leaves richer areas more exposed to dangerous heat, the study says.

World Malaria Day 2026 Pushes Action as New Tools Boost Hopes

Climate Change Is Stretching Europe’s Pollen Season by Up to Two Weeks

Lancet Report Warns Europe’s Heat Deaths Are Surging and Health Risks Are Worsening

Heat Set to Overtake Storms and Floods as Top Climate Killer by 2050, Report Finds

Rising Heat Poised to Drive Global Inactivity and Deaths by 2050, Lancet Study Finds

Copernicus Confirms First Three-Year Stretch Above 1.5°C as 2025 Ranks Third-Hottest

2025 Confirmed as Third-Warmest Year as 2023–2025 Average Exceeds 1.5°C

Study Finds 69,000 U.S. Deaths Linked to Temperature Extremes Since 1999, With Heat Mortality Rising

Belém Health Action Plan Launched at COP30 as $300 Million Drive Targets Climate–Health Risks

Lancet Countdown 2025 Finds Record Health Toll From Heat, Wildfire Smoke and Fossil Pollution

Gates Recasts Climate Priorities Before COP30 as New Reports Warn of Escalating Harms

Bill Gates Calls for Climate Rethink, Urges Focus on Health and Adaptation Ahead of COP30

Lancet Countdown Warns Climate Change Is Causing Millions of Avoidable Deaths

Study Links Climate Change to Two-Thirds of 24,400 Summer Heat Deaths in European Cities

Study Estimates Climate Change Drove 16,500 of 24,400 Summer Heat Deaths in European Cities

WHO, WMO Declare Heat a Global Health Crisis, Urge Protections for 2.4 Billion Workers

Experts Urge Sun Safety as ‘Sunburnt Tan Lines’ Challenge Spreads

Green Youth Expropriation Push Fuels Constitutional Debate

Study Links European Heatwave to Tripled Death Toll from Fossil Fuel Warming