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
Loading
Search
Results
35 stories for“heat risk”
FilterAll 35Health 10Travel 6Diving 4Recipes 4Business 3Design 2Latest Trends 2Lifestyle 2Technology 2
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Travel
Europe’s Wildfires Are Rewriting the Summer Travel Map
Evacuations near Cap-Ferret and one of Spain’s largest fires show why Mediterranean and Atlantic holidays now require a live risk plan, not just insurance.
Jul 23, 2026
Business
The Gas Shock Reaches Far Beyond the Energy Bill
Tighter LNG supply is reducing gas demand, but the deeper risk runs through electricity, industry, fertilizer and food prices. Energy security is becoming economic security.
Jul 31, 2026
Recipes
Low FODMAP Lemon Chicken and Rice, With Garlic Flavour and No Garlic
The hardest part of eating low FODMAP is that onion and garlic start almost every savoury dish on earth. Infused oil solves it, because the troublesome part does not dissolve in fat.
Aug 12, 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
Travel
The Case for Travelling in the Weeks Nobody Else Books
Shoulder season is cheaper, emptier and usually better weather than the peak it sits beside. It also has failure modes, and knowing which ones apply is the difference between a bargain and a wasted trip.
Aug 8, 2026
Recipes
One Bunch of Beetroot, Three Dishes, Nothing in the Bin
A bunch of beetroot arrives as three separate vegetables that happen to be attached. Roast the roots, wilt the leaves, pickle the stems, and the thing most people throw away turns out to be the best part.
Sep 4, 2026
Business
The First Week of August Could Reset the Market's Rate Story
JOLTS, productivity, payrolls and Treasury refunding arrive in one compressed week. Together they can change what investors believe about rates, growth and bond supply.
Aug 2, 2026
Diving
Freediving in the UAE: Where to Train When the Sea Is 34C
The east coast has the depth, the Gulf side has the pools, and summer changes the answer entirely. A practical guide to training here across the year rather than flying to Dahab every time.
Aug 13, 2026
Design
Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified
Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.
Aug 14, 2026
Travel
Travellers Are Booking the Grandmother, Not the Landmark
Summer bookings show shorter trips, cooler destinations and a preference for experiences led by lifelong locals and traditional craftspeople. The multi country sprint is losing.
Aug 4, 2026
Recipes
Kitchari: The Sattvic One-Pot That Ayurveda Treats as Medicine
Rice, mung dal and ghee, cooked soft and spiced gently. In the pranic and sattvic traditions it is the reset meal, and the reasoning behind it is more practical than mystical.
Aug 11, 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
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
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
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
Travel
Summer 2026 Travel: The World Cup and a Turbulent Region Collide
A World Cup spanning three countries and closed Middle East airspace are both reshaping summer routes and fares. Here is what is actually happening.
Jul 10, 2026
Travel
A Glacier Fell 1,200 Metres Onto a River, and a Valley Full of Travellers Was Gone in Half an Hour
The ice broke away above the Lhende river in Tibet on Wednesday morning, dammed it, then let go. Nepal's tourism department has 668 visitors from 34 countries listed as missing. The mechanism has a name, and the Himalaya is producing it more often.
Aug 28, 2026
Recipes
A Gluten-Free Sourdough Loaf That Is Actually Bread
Wild fermentation does something for gluten-free bread that yeast cannot: flavour, a softer crumb, and a loaf that keeps. It takes five days to start and about twenty minutes of work a day after that.
Aug 11, 2026
Technology
Tesla and SpaceX Are Building a Chip Plant on a Dead Coal Reservoir
Sixteen point eight billion dollars for the first phase, a hundred million square feet when finished, and a site chosen because a shuttered power station left behind exactly what a fab needs.
Aug 14, 2026
Diving
Freediving in the Red Sea and the Gulf: Where People Actually Train
Dahab's Blue Hole draws freedivers year round for a reason: shore access to real depth, warm water, forgiving conditions and an established training community.
Nov 14, 2025
Technology
iOS 27 Puts Apple’s New Siri AI in the Public’s Hands
Apple’s public beta finally lets ordinary iPhone owners test a more capable Siri that can understand screens, personal context and actions across apps.
Jul 21, 2026
Lifestyle
Earthquake Safety, Compared: What the Gulf, the US and Europe Actually Tell You to Do
Drop, Cover, Hold On is the near-universal instruction, and the exceptions matter. Here is the official guidance from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Europe, and where it diverges.
Aug 12, 2026
Business
Why Al Wisam Treats After-Sales Support as Equipment
Al Wisam’s service model puts spare parts, maintenance, repairs and operator training into the same conversation as machinery procurement.
Jan 15, 2026
