Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing humanity today. The consequences of rising global temperatures, extreme weather events, and environmental degradation are already being felt around the world. Climate action has emerged as a global imperative, calling for urgent and collective efforts to mitigate the impacts of…
afford to run the air conditioner or fans in their homes, and people who work outdoors are also particularly vulnerable because they are more exposed to that heat during the day. we are seeing this summer, record after record being broken when it comes to high temperatures. are the current adaptation strategies in these countries sufficient, or do they need to take another very hard look at them? reporter: i think it is fair to say that no matter where you look around the globe, we are not at all prepared for the type of heat that we are experiencing this year, let alone for the heat that we will experience in the future because of climate change. so, we really need to put our efforts to become more resilient to heat into high gear, and a few of the things we need to do her number one, cut our emissions of gases. that means stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible, because the more quickly we can
Housekeeping
A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last week s edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasn t. It seems to be the case that Nature Publishing is passing some duff data into the publication metadata food chain, with the result that Unpaywall (we employ the Unpaywall API to identify open access) is repeating this erroneous input to us. This week s edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF links appear to be working properly.