Health
France’s June Heatwave Toll: 5,764 Excess Deaths in 2026
A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026
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17 stories for“heat health risk”
Health
Disabled People Report More Climate Harm, Exposing a Planning Blind Spot
New survey analysis points to greater climate-related health harm among disabled people, strengthening the case for accessible alerts, evacuation and cooling plans.
Jul 24, 2026
Health
Surviving a Gulf August: What Actually Works Against Extreme Heat
Heat illness is one of the most preventable medical emergencies there is, and most of the popular advice about it is either useless or actively wrong. The humidity is what changes the arithmetic.
Aug 8, 2026
Health
Sleeping Through a Gulf Summer: Why Heat Wrecks Sleep and What Helps
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
Latest Trends
A Strong El Niño Is Building: The Time to Prepare Is Before the Weather Arrives
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
Latest Trends
Wildfire Smoke Does Not Respect Borders, and Its Health Toll Outlasts the Flames
As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.
Jul 25, 2026
Lifestyle
Summer’s silent killer: What to Do in the Event of a Heat Wave?
With the rising environmental concerns caused by global warming, reducing our carbon footprint has become an urgent priority. This means that we need to find ways to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and shift to renewable energy sources. Our planet faces serious
Aug 30, 2023
Travel
Coolcations Are Becoming Climate Adaptation for Travelers
Travelers are shifting destinations and seasons to avoid extreme heat, turning the coolcation from a catchy label into a planning strategy.
Jul 31, 2026
Diving
Coral Bleaching and the Reefs Divers Love: The Current State
The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.
Jun 18, 2026
Health
Ten Thousand Steps Was a Marketing Number. The Evidence Says the Benefit Flattens Around Seven Thousand
Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
The Finnish Sauna Study Everyone Quotes Is Real, and It Is Weaker Than the Wellness Industry Wants It to Be
Men who used a sauna four to seven times a week had far fewer sudden cardiac deaths over twenty years than men who went once. That finding launched an industry. What the study can and cannot support, and who should be careful.
Sep 6, 2026
Health
What Is Actually in a Grey-Market Peptide Vial
Research use only is a legal phrase, not a quality standard. Testing of peptides bought online keeps finding the wrong dose, the wrong compound, or contamination in something people inject at home.
Aug 12, 2026
Health
The Conversation About Fasting With Diabetes Should Happen Two Months Before Ramadan, Not During It
The IDF and Diabetes and Ramadan International Alliance stratify patients into low, moderate and high risk, and updated the calculator for 2026. The assessment is meant to happen six to eight weeks ahead, which is when almost nobody books it.
Aug 3, 2026
Health
Vitamin D Supplements: A Reality Check on Who Actually Benefits
Large trials with more than 30,000 participants found vitamin D pills do little for people who are not deficient, reshaping decades of assumptions.
Jan 20, 2026
Health
Five-Year Survival After a Diabetic Foot Ulcer Is Worse Than for Several Common Cancers
Between 19 and 34 per cent of people with diabetes will develop a foot ulcer. Once one has happened, five-year mortality runs at 50 to 70 per cent. Almost nobody is told this, and the prevention costs the price of looking.
Jul 22, 2026
Diving
WHO’s New Drowning Plan Moves Safety Beyond Swim Lessons
The PROTECT package treats drowning as a systems failure involving childcare, transport, infrastructure, rescue and climate preparation, not a single bad choice.
Jul 23, 2026
Design
Housing for Old Age Is the Hardest Brief in Architecture, and Almost Nobody Takes It Seriously
A Stirling Prize winning practice spent its first later living project doing things most retirement housing never bothers with. The design lessons transfer to any budget. The price, unfortunately, does not.
Aug 26, 2026
