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Globally, life expectancy and age-standardised disease burden are forecasted to improve between 2022 and 2050.

In scorching heat on a busy Kolkata street last month, commuters sought refuge inside a glass-walled bus shelter where two air conditioners churned around stifling air. Those inside were visibly sweating, dabbing at their foreheads in sauna-like temperatures that were scarcely cooler than out in the open.

Kolkata faces extreme heat and heat waves with inadequate measures to protect residents. Commuters seek refuge in a glass-walled bus shelter with malfunctioning air conditioners. Local authorities plans to install cooled cabins have not been fully realized. Mayor Firhad Hakim expresses concerns about the citys lack of heat resilience efforts and high death toll.

Even as India is seeing the worst of heat stress this summer, plans to combat heat and phasing out coal do not feature in the manifestos of its two largest parties

Microsoft's 2024 sustainability report shows the tech giant's indirect emissions have risen by 30.9% since 2020

Attempts to improve resilience to extreme heat have often been ill-conceived.

A recent paper in Nature reveals that the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest in 2,000 years.

Historically warm average temperatures are significantly changing the weather. However, we are not seeing an upward historical trend in major Atlantic hurricanes.

Genesis Digital Assets Limited (GDA), one of the largest Bitcoin mining companies in the world in terms of hash rate, has announced the opening of a new data centre in Argentina powered by YPF Luz, a leading company in electric power generation.

A new paper shows the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the last two millenia.