Deaths from climate-related heat waves are killing over 540,000 people a year, reports France 24. That figure - from a study published yesterday in the British medical journal The Lancet - represents one person every minute.
Climate change is forcing a French island off the coast of Canada to dismantle its only village and move it inland, explains The Guardian. Miquelon is in imminent danger from sea-level rise.
Alaska’s famous snow crab fishery may not survive climate change, according to Science. Warmer waters in 2018 and 2019 killed an estimated 47 billion crabs and could be the start of the population’s permanent northward migration.
Wildfires burned an area the size of India in 2024, notes Carbon Brief. Last year’s fires occurred in particularly carbon-rich forests, releasing 8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The Earth has reached a tipping point past which its tropical coral reefs will not survive, relays RFI. Coral reefs provide vital habitats for marine life and protect shorelines from storms, but will evolve into less diverse ecosystems as temperatures rise.
Climate change is disrupting whale migration patterns, says Inside Climate News. Environmental cues that have guided cetacean migrations for millennia are being scrambled, resulting in erratic and more dangerous routes.
