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Female Agricultural, Garment Workers’ Health at Serious Risk As Temperatures Rise in Cambodia Indigenous women working in plantations and factories face major heat-related illnesses from breathing difficulties, dizziness, and vomiting as rising temperatures intensify climate inequality. Expert...

"Indigenous women working in plantations and factories face major heat-related illnesses... as rising temperatures intensify climate inequality." Nice piece from Cambodia

#extremeheat #climatechange #Cambodia #women

Like other women in her rural community in southern Mozambique, Adelaide Macuacua has long lived with drought, floods, water shortages and poverty. Now another pressure is adding to the burden: Extreme heat

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#extremeheat #women #Africa #Mozambique
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More heat, no air-con: At-home workers face threat as temperatures soar Worsening extreme heat is making working hours less comfortable - and in some cases even dangerous - for more home-based workers around the world, whose numbers have surged since the COVID-19 pandemic

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, more people are working at home. But what does that mean as extreme heat takes hold and not everyone can afford to install or pay for cooling? Rachel Parsons takes a look

#extremeheat #women #cooling #health

"Across Sierra Leone in 2025, extreme heat has become one of the country’s most serious yet under-recognised threats, unlike floods or landslides that leave visible destruction"

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Under the Intensifying Heat: Poverty and Child Marriage in Seluma - Bincang Perempuan Climate change is intensifying poverty and driving child marriage in Seluma, Bengkulu. This in-depth report explores how extreme heat, crop failure, .

Don't miss this eye-opening look at how climate change impacts - including extreme heat - are increasing the pressures for child marriage in Indonesia

#extremeheat #women #Indonesia #climatechange

Displaced Women in Nigeria Suffer Extreme Heat that “Feels Like Dying” – EcoPivot Under a patch of semi-shade, Fatima Abdullahi, 36, pulled her child closer against the afternoon heat. She remembered vividly the night of July 16, 2025. Her body temperature climbed until she could n...

Think summer extreme heat is bad where you live? These northern Nigerian refugees fleeing from extremist bandits sleep 50 to a school classroom, in 47 degree C conditions #extremeheat #climatechange #women

Inside Gambian women vendors’ battle with extreme heat Gambian women vendors endure physical and emotional struggles daily, battling with their own bodies to keep supporting their families while navigating the oppressive heat, limited infrastructure, and ...

Great to see this reporting by Nyima Sillah - one of the West African journalists trained on extreme heat journalism by Climate Resilience for All - on how ever-hotter conditions are hitting both the health and incomes of market women in The Gambia #extremeheat #journalism

Wow! Great extreme heat and health conference in last week by the University of Copenhagen School of Public Health and the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research. Thanks for letting me add my two cents worth too....

Extreme heat brings fast-rising risks for pregnant women and babies Worsening extreme heat exposure globally is driving hikes in health threats from premature birth to pre-eclampsia

Extreme heat is bringing big rises in pre-eclampsia, stillbirths, premature births and other worries for pregnant women and their babies www.climateresilience.org/maternal-new... #extremeheat #health #maternalhealth #climate @lshtm.bsky.social

Are you a journalist living in Southeast Asia who wants to know how to report more effectively on increasingly extreme heat? Here's your chance to join our training in Bangkok in October. Apply by Sept. 17! lnkd.in/eaDYuNbp

Here are some ideas about how to better portray heat - an invisible threat - in images: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...

Here's how to change that - some guidelines for photographing extreme heat: www.climateresilience.org/guidelines-f...

Shared work, shared water: Water cooperation eases extreme heat, drought risk for Indian women Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

A lovely story about how rethinking a village's water - and rights to it - can have huge benefits for women, especially those facing extreme heat and drought. Thanks to co-publishers The Migration Story!

#extremeheat #water#drought #India #solutions #women
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Want to improve communication about climate change and health issues? There's a job open at the @wmo-global.bsky.social that might suit you... erecruit.wmo.int/public/hrd-c... #health #climatechange #extremeheat

Interesting and well presented tool on climate disinformation

Too hot in Australia and need some personalised advice on how to cope? Here's an app for you

Solutions-oriented Sydney heat lab tests ‘the limits of human survival’ At a University of Sydney lab, researchers are testing the limits of human comfort and survivability in current and future extreme heat

Way too much of what we think we know about managing extreme heat is wrong. Here's a lab setting some things straight @heathealth.info #extremeheat

Does ULEZ work? Have a look at the air quality improvements by borough

As someone who has been vaccinated for rabies, anthrax and smallpox, as well as the usual suspects, I couldn't agree more!

Planning a trip to your favorite U.S. national park this year? Good luck if you need the bathroom, medical help, a place to stay there or anything else. Turns out federal employees are useful

It was fantastic being in Freetown for the launch of the city’s pioneering heat action plan and seeing parts of it already at work - from Congo market to Ojuku’s mangroves - alongside Yvonne Ali-Sawyerr and Eugenia Kargbo

@kbmcleod.bsky.social #Africa #extremeheat #women

What a pleasure training a really smart group of West African journalists today on fast-worsening heat risks - and what can be done about them #extremeheat #resilience

The first African Urban Heat Summit happens this week in Freetown - looking forward to being part of it

#extremeheat #Africa

As Freetown broils, a pioneering African heat plan takes shape Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

“The heat is too extreme now, it suffocates us. We cannot sell in the markets without shelter.”

Across Africa, extreme heat is growing increasingly deadly. The good news? Freetown this week becomes the first African city to launch a formal plan to deal with that threat

#Africa #extremeheat #women

Extreme Heat Reporting Training Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sou...

How much demand is there to better understand growing extreme heat risk? Our upcoming training to help journalists better report on it had 683 applicants

#extremeheat #journalism #WestAfrica

‘Overwhelming’ heat a struggle for Bangkok’s outdoor workers Blazing Realities: Field Reports from the frontlines of extreme heat

Extreme heat is making life much harder for Thailand's outdoor workers

"I was almost blacking out many times," admitted one woman who operates an open-air roadside kitchen in Bangkok, where temperatures are expected to soar again in 2025

#extremeheat #Thailand @dannymarks.bsky.social

Extreme Heat Reporting Training Join Climate Resilience for All for a three-day in-person training course in Accra, Ghana on February 10-12, 2025, designed to improve your reporting on the impacts of extreme heat, giving you new sou...

Are you an English-speaking West African journalist looking to improve your reporting on climate change-driven extreme heat? Apply to join Climate Resilience for All's first in-person training in Ghana #extremeheat #journalism

Storm Darragh showed me how unprepared my family – and Britain – are for disaster | Gaby Hinsliff After just 12 hours without power, we were cold, isolated and facing the fact that everyday life is far more precarious than it seems, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

This is such a useful piece. As the climate and the world grow more uncertain, it's useful to think ahead and prepare for the unexpected, whether that's a solar panel or two to make your own power, a bit of stored food and water, or just getting to know the neighbours

Climate crisis deepens with 2024 ‘certain’ to be hottest year on record Average global temperature in November was 1.62C above preindustrial levels, bringing average for the year to 1.60C

Guess what? We didn't pass 1.5C in 2024. We're passing 1.6C

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