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Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

A chart climate change deniers can’t ignore

A wildfire rages on Studeno mountain above Danilovgrad, Montenegro, Aug 15, 2025. Europe "continues to face degradation, overexploitation and biodiversity loss", noted the EEA, which compiled data from 38 countries across the continent for its report.
ESG

Europe must step up efforts to protect environment: report

Commuters cross the street on their way to work on a hot, sunny morning in Tokyo on Aug 6, 2025. Heatwaves are becoming more intense and frequent worldwide because of human-caused climate change, scientists say, and Japan is no exception.
ESG

Tokyo logs record 10 days of 35 deg C or more

Thanks to artist Jonas Griessler collective’s artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colours, the ground temperature has dropped from 31 to 20 deg C.
Lifestyle

Keeping cool with colours, Vienna museum paints asphalt to fight heat

Heat threatens human life, as well as stressing electric grids and transportation networks.
International

More than 132 million face wilting heat across eastern US

Just like ride hailing and food delivery apps the world over, Chinese gig work employers pitch their jobs as flexible, entrepreneurial, and empowering.
Global Enterprise

China’s gig economy booms as blistering heat leaves workers exposed

People cool off in a fountain in front of Berlin Cathedral on a hot summer day, as a heatwave hits Berlin, Germany.
Opinion & Features

What the EU stands to lose as the continent bakes

Consumer costs are starting to climb as well, especially after an auction last year to procure supplies rose to a record high for a 12-month period that started Jun 1.
Energy & Commodities

Intense heat to push biggest US grid’s power use to 12-year high

The thermometer screen at the Cavalry Church displays a temperature reading of 121 degrees on September 5, 2024 in Woodland Hills, California. Californians were being warned on September 3 to prepare to swelter as a fearsome heatwave settles over the western US state. The mercury was forecast to top out at a scorching 113F (45C) in parts of Los Angeles later in the week, marking the high point of an already hot summer. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)
Property

It’s the hottest neighbourhood in all of Los Angeles

Lessons from the past year’s heatwaves should spur countries to enhance their heat resilience.
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Wooing foreign investors? Heat resilience may be a new key factor for cities

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