Africa Health Politics Sea level rise 
Grist
MAY 30, 2024
“If this is a biological response, imagine what’s happening in places like India and Africa where the heat can get to an unbearable 130 degrees Fahrenheit,” Basu remembers thinking. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. particularly in marginalized communities.
Grist
MARCH 7, 2022
The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. Not planning for that could lead to poor health, tragedy, and intergenerational poverty.
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DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Large swaths of the Middle East and North Africa are warming at almost twice the rate of the global average, with devastating effects: blazes in the forests of Algeria and Syria , sandstorms choking the air in Iraq, and deadly heat waves gripping urban centers. It really [affects] peoples’ bodies, their health, their environment, their air.
Business Green
JULY 18, 2022
The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. Coastal communities face habitat destruction and sea level rise.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2022
Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Last month, the worst heatwave ever recorded hit Japan. The backlash [from deniers] was intense.
Business Green
APRIL 7, 2020
Over the past fortnight the coronavirus pandemic has triggered a surge in hot takes highlighting the unnerving similarities between the global public health emergency and the worsening climate emergency that runs alongside it. What happens if sea levels rise and five mega-storms make US landfall in the same year?
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