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[May 17, 2026] Climate crisis is a global public health emergency: Anna Bawden reports in an article that the independent pan-European commission on climate and health, which was convened by WHO, reached the conclusion that the climate crisis was a severe worldwide threat to health and recommended that WHO declare it “a public health emergency of international concern.” The commission stated: “Far from being a fading priority or fake news, climate change poses an immediate and long-term threat to health, economic, food, water, environmental, personal, community and national security.”
[Apr 25, 2026] Women are ‘the first to die’: Mariana Rosetti and Paola Churchill in the article “Three disasters in three years: Brazil’s deadly floods show women are ‘the first to die’ when extreme weather hits” published in the Guardian point out that the changing climate is accelerating the frequency of devastating weather-related events across the world that displacing millions and disproportionately affecting women. Based on three extreme events in Brazil, the authors underline that the built environment is not prepared for these events.
[Apr 22, 2026] Extreme Heat is Impacting Food Security: In the article “World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns” by Fiona Harvey published in the Guardian, the author reports on a warning by the UN that extreme heat is severely stressing food systems. Richard Waite, the director of agriculture initiatives at the World Resources Institute commented: “Without adaptation, extreme heat will cut crop and livestock yields, forcing more land into agriculture to maintain food production. That would drive even higher emissions from land use change, which in turn would make climate impacts on agriculture even worse.”
[Apr 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.
[Apr 19, 2026] Climate Change Impacts Human-Wildlife Interactions : The article “‘It feels like death is certain’: lives and limbs lost to crocodile attacks on the banks of Kenya’s rising Lake Turkana” by Carlos Mureithi gives a shocking picture of the changing interaction between crocodiles and humans at Lake Turkana in Kenya. Lake levels are rising in the desert-terminal lake due to changing precipitation in the course of the changing climate. This brings crocodiles and humans closer together, with more and more deadly incidents happening.
[Apr 09, 2026] Heatwaves are Much Worth Than Previously Thought: In the article titled “‘Non-survivable’: heatwaves are already breaching human limits, with worse to come, study finds” published in The Guardian, Graham Readfearn reports on a new study published in Nature. In this study, a new model of human survivability was used to study the impacts of extreme heatwaves. The research found that humans are more sensitive to heatwaves than previously thought. For older people, mortality under extreme heat is much higher then believed before. This underlines the necessity of heat shelters in regions with extreme heatwaves. Another study also published in Nature found that deadly heatwaves are already occurring.
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[Jun 04, 2026] ‘An equal and habitable world is possible’: This is what the Global Justice Report published today makes very clear. Read the article by Jonathan Watts in the Guardian as an introduction. While this equal and habitable world is still possible, it is very unlikely that we will transition to this world as long as greedy and unethical billionaires supported by governments they own compete to be the first trillionaire. The report underlines that the fight for an equal and habitable world has to be a fight against a system that rewards extraction and depletion of all resources and requires infinitely growing consumption devouring the Earth's life-support system; a system designed to increase inequality and sustain the exploitation of almost all to serve the greed of a few!
[May 28, 2026] No King Day on June 14, 2026: The No Kings movement has announced a nationwide event on June 14, 2026, directly counter-programming the 80th birthday celebrations for Donald Trump and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout on the south lawn of the White House.
