Day: July 21, 2023

With temperatures rising and pressure on biodiversity growing, insects vital to our ecosystems are not only moving north and south, but up. Around the world, different species are shifting their habitats upwards, with potentially catastrophic results for our ecosystems. Bumblebees in the Pyrenees have moved upwards on average by more than a metre a year, with some species making significantly...

Adopting sustainable cooling strategies in daily life in the face of rising temperatures is important to mitigate climate change. What are the easy and environmentally-friendly ways to keep cool in extreme heat? Cooling the person instead of the surrounding air is more practical and this can be practised on the individual level. The Lancet infographic below outlines 8 such easy and eco-friendly...