Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2006, flooding in Surat left more than 75 percent of the city underwater, causing major economic and other losses. The city took a series of coordinated action so that the experience of 2006 was not repeated. And most of the cities, which are still rapidly expanding, are not prepared for it, although there are a few exceptions.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

A few years later, I interviewed someone who attended the event and he said, ‘We all knew it was real, but it was too political to talk about on TV.’”. He was basically demanding that they start to talk about climate change on TV,” Davies said. The backlash [from deniers] was intense. Al Gore at the World Economic Forum in 2008.

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