Why the WHO must declare climate change a public health emergency
Across the world, people have felt the impacts of climate change firsthand. The northern hemisphere has had another record-breaking summer season of heat and extreme weather events. The south now faces a summer of heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and droughts. This is driven by decades of climate change, now supercharged by an unprecedented El Niño – the warm phase of the El Niño Southern Oscillation, which is a cyclical warming and cooling of the Pacific ocean driven by changing trade winds, with…
Places named in this report: South Africa, Spain, France, Ireland
Exact coordinates
south africa: -30.560, 22.940
spain: 40.460, -3.750
france: 46.230, 2.210
ireland: 53.140, -7.690
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