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Potential impacts, including floods, drought and heatwaves, could ‘hit even harder’ this year, UN chief warns.
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More than 1.5 million pilgrims brave fierce Mecca heat ahead of Hajj
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UN backs international court’s climate ruling despite US opposition
Some 141 UN member states voted in support of the ICJ’s finding climate change is an ‘existential threat’.
FIFA warned ‘gruelling heat’ could impact a quarter of World Cup games
Scientists warn football’s governing body that global warming has increased extreme heat risk since 1994 US World Cup.
A salt pan worker rakes salt on an alkali flat in the Little Rann of Kutch region in Gujarat. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
In the blinding white glare of the salt flats, workers rake shallow pans of brine each day, coaxing out crystals that help Gujarat produce most of India’s salt. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Regular raking of the salt pans ensures even crystalisation. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Researchers say the salt pan workers in Gujarat suffer from high levels of dehydration and early signs of kidney malfunction. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
On the remote salt pans with no electricity or healthcare, the workers rely on a single water tanker that arrives every 25 days to supply all their drinking and washing needs. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A salt pan worker holds a handful of harvested salt. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Despite rising heatwaves and storms that can erase months of work overnight, salt pan families return to the Little Rann each year, saying they have no other way to earn a living. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A salt pan worker carries a rare pair of rubber boots as she walks across an alkali flat in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch. The protective footwear shields workers’ feet from corrosive brine that can crack exposed skin so deeply it bleeds. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Rows of white salt mounds rise out of the desert, the result of weeks of raking and shovelling by families who earn only a few hundred dollars for a season’s labour. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A truck drives past solar panels while transporting harvested salt from an alkali flat at the Little Rann of Kutch region in Gujarat. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
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‘A calamity’: Why is a record heatwave sweeping South Asia?
Countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have experienced temperatures soaring well above seasonal averages.
A newly displaced Somali woman holds her malnourished baby at a stabilisation centre for children suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Somalia ranks among the world's most vulnerable countries to climate change. [Simon Maina/AFP]
A woman builds her family hut in an IDP camp on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Displaced Somali people collect water from a well inside an IDP camp. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Farmers, whose herds and crops have been decimated, describe one of the worst droughts ever recorded. [Simon Maina/AFP]
More than 200 health centres and 400 schools have closed since last year. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Several international organisations have stopped operations in the camps on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
Displaced Somali people sit under the shade of a tree as they wait for medical attention at an IDP camp on the outskirts of Kismayo. [Simon Maina/AFP]
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Tackling methane emissions key for climate change and energy security: IEA
Dealing with emissions could help alleviate effects of Iran crisis on global energy supply, says report.
Floods and landslides kill at least 18 in Kenya
Ongoing rains are causing floods and landslides in the East African nation.
