PARIS, Nov 9 — Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the...
A car rides by the dried Yovkovtsi dam, near the town of Elena, Central Bulgaria on November 08, 2024. Nine of 12 dams supplying water to localities in Bulgaria are 65% full, and the drought in summer is perduring now in the autumn. More than 240.000 people in a country of 6,5 million are facing regular water shortages.
“Climate change is making us sick, and urgent action is a matter of life and death,” the World Health Organization warned this week.The EU’s climate monitor said this week that 2024 is “virtually certain” to surpass last year to become the hottest year in recorded history. It is also expected to be the first year that is more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Extreme heat leads to numerous health risks such as kidney disorders, strokes, adverse pregnancy outcomes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, organ failure and ultimately death. Spain is meanwhile still recovering from its deadliest floods in a generation, while parts of the United States and Cuba are picking up the pieces after recent hurricanes.
Farmers harvest blue-and-purple flower petals of saffron in a field of the village of Krokos, near Kozani, north-west Greece on November 1, 2024. Beneath the beautiful flowers, which can fetch five to nine euros for a single gram, the earth is cracked and parched after uncommonly long periods of drought. — AFP picJust last week, Pakistan’s second-biggest city Lahore recorded air pollution at 40 times the level deemed acceptable by the WHO.
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