Sign up to receive Climate Beat in your inbox every Thursday. Fifty years ago, the recent deadly heatwave that shattered temperature records across Europe would have been “virtually impossible.” That’s according to a new scientific study by the nonprofit, World Weather Attribution. “Driven by climate change and global warming, the phenomenon of the ‘once-in-a-generation’ heatwave […]
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LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER En Latinoamérica, la crisis climática es, legalmente, mucho más que una preocupación medioambiental. Este 3 de julio se cumple un año desde que la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (Corte IDH) confirmase que los Estados tienen la obligación vinculante de respetar y garantizar los derechos humanos en el contexto de […]
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Sign up to receive Locally Sourced in your inbox every other Tuesday. Story Spark: Heat & Worker Safety Last week’s deadly heatwave in Europe and similar record-breaking temperatures last month in the US and in Asia highlight that worsening summer heat is becoming a shared global experience. While heatwaves made worse due to climate change […]
This week a brutal heatwave is shattering heat records in Europe, but it’s worth recalling that last summer the same thing happened in Asia. China, Japan, and Korea suffered their hottest summers on record in 2025, the World Meteorological Organization noted in a new report. Now, it’s France’s turn. And maybe Belgium, Spain, and Britain’s […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER El cambio climático es un factor creciente de migración y desplazamientos involuntarios de población. La escasez de agua y alimentos junto al aumento de fenómenos meteorológicos extremos está deteriorando las condiciones de vida de algunas regiones del mundo hasta el punto de obligar a muchas personas a marcharse de manera […]
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The publisher of The New York Times recently made an extraordinary speech about AI, journalism, and the public square that’s received surprisingly little public reaction. What makes A.G. Sulzberger’s speech extraordinary is that it was unabashedly crusading, and crusading is a stance New York Times publishers have rarely if ever adopted over the newspaper’s 175-year […]
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Sign up to receive Locally Sourced in your inbox every other Tuesday. Story Spark: Heat & Sports From the iconic red clay of Roland Garros to the grassy pitches of the World Cup (and even your kid’s youth baseball game), many of this year’s biggest (and smallest) sporting events are being affected by extreme heat […]
This summer’s World Cup will be unlike any other in the 96-year history of the world’s most popular sporting event. Never before have players on the field and spectators in the stands faced the intensity of heat expected to confront them at the matches taking place over the next 39 days, starting with today’s opener […]
LO QUE TIENES QUE SABER Mañana comienza el Mundial de fútbol, que acogerán 16 ciudades en México, Estados Unidos y Canadá. Se disputarán 104 partidos, y el cambio climático aumenta las probabilidades de que el calor afecte al rendimiento de los jugadores en 97 de ellos, según un análisis de Climate Central. Las investigaciones científicas […]