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The number of hours where it’s too hot for everyday activities has doubled since 1950, a new study found.

Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

This exhibition explores humanity’s vital connection with freshwater – an essential source of life and pillar of good health for people and planet.

Find out about Wellcome’s impact in 2024/25, with notes from our Chair and CEO, reports on what we did last year and reviews of our finances and investments.

Who are the people who shaped the world this year?

Patients to benefit from faster life-saving treatments as new leader appointed for health data service

Some scientists argue that the link between increasing heat and adverse maternal outcomes is quietly becoming a public health emergency

The year-long series called Vital Signs will include stories from the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

Authors of a new Lancet report warn that parts of the world could become unlivable, as climate change drives a surge in heat deaths.

Tiger mosquitoes that carry the virus are increasingly spreading across Europe.

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As Londoners struggle to adapt to rising temperatures, some of the city’s wealthier denizens are finding that money can’t always deliver the relief they seek.

Protests continue against default lower limit in urban areas that supporters say is working ‘exactly as intended’

You might need a glass of water to read this review, and you think about it differently afterwards.

For journalists, the most urgent climate disaster is also the trickiest to report on.

Not since that other phrase, ‘follow the science’, has there been so much unease that words that sound like they are backing science might be a trap for it

The first healthy babies born in the UK thanks to mitochondrial donation show what science can achieve when combined with advocacy and engagement to build trust.

Japanese retailer says trend is global as shoppers shift to lighter layers to cope with extremes in weather

The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Scientists are clear that global warming is making heatwaves like this hotter and more likely.