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Cloudbursts in India and atmospheric rivers in California are distinct weather phenomena, yet both unleash intense rainfall over a relatively short period. As climate change aggravates these events, there is an urgent need for governments to up their game in weather prediction. 

Using Google’s Flood Hub, a nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

He was treated for skin burns at the hospital, yet more than a year and a half later, a numbness prevails in his groin and stomach.  Ahmad still continues to use the herbicide in his crop, as it is the cheapest herbicide option. 

Since some chemicals become increasingly concentrated in animal tissues as they move up the food chain, long-lived, top predators like alligators — which may spend 50 years or more swimming and eating fish in potentially polluted water — are exemplary sentinels of lurking health threats.

“Before, it used to be around 40 cases a day, but after the protests, it went over 100 — mostly people who had inhaled tear gas and thick smoke from burning buildings [and] seeking emergency care for respiratory complications,” says Dr. Niraj Bam, associate professor and head,  Department of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, TUTH.

A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)

Extreme heat poses a significant threat to millions of people worldwide, particularly to burn victims, who have lost the ability to regulate their internal body temperatures through the natural process of homeostasis.

An increasingly important route for transporting commodities from Brazil’s central-west region, BR-364 in Rondônia will be partially twinned and upgraded with passing lanes. Image courtesy of Marcio Ferreira/Brazilian Ministry of Transport.

The root causes of period poverty in Zimbabwe run deeper than simple affordability. Prolonged droughts, many worsened by climate change, have devastated crops and pushed millions into deeper poverty, leaving agrarian families unable to buy basic menstrual products.