Climate-crisis

The toxic impacts of climate change are not only disrupting environmental balance but also robbing people of restful sleep at night. A recent report by international research organization Climate Central says residents of Bangladesh’s major cities are now losing between 72 and 84 hours of normal sleep each year. Over the past five decades, this heat-related sleep loss has at least doubled. The study found that the port city of Chattogram tops the list of sleep loss. Residents there are lo...

An estimated 5,120 people have died from heatwave-related causes in Germany so far this year, the country’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said in its weekly report published Thursday. According to the report, most of the deaths occurred in late June, when the average weekly temperature was well above 20 degrees Celsius. The RKI said that about 4,270 of the total deaths were among people aged 75 or older. It also said more women than men died because women make up a larger...