Extreme Heat Archives

In 2025, as in previous years, Impakter readers turned in large numbers to stories examining climate change and pollution, environmental ...

Women and Extreme Heat: Simple Adaptations Make a Big Difference

byKate Schecter - CEO of World Neighbors

December 23, 2025

One of the more damaging impacts of climate change is extreme heat. From Spain to Bolivia to Burkina Faso, unusual ...

Paris Agreement Cuts Global Extreme Heat Risk in Half

byLena McDonough

October 16, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Paris Climate Pledges Could Halve Extreme Heat Days: Commitments under the agreement have reduced projected global extreme ...

3 Things to Know About Heat Stress and How to Prevent It

byThe Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

September 3, 2025

The World Meteorological Organization reported that 2024 was the first entire year with global temperatures exceeding 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial ...

ESG news regarding ECB President Christine Lagarde warns Trump’s attempt to control the Fed poses serious risks to global economy, UK records hottest summer in 2025, Levi’s warns Trump’s tariffs and anti-American sentiment could impact UK denim sales, Revolut valuation jumps to $75B

Trump’s Push to Control Fed a ‘Serious Danger’ to Global Economy

byAda Omar

September 2, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Lagarde Warns Trump Threatens Fed Independence: The ECB head says moves to fire top Fed officials could ...

World Could Breach 1.5°C Target in 3 Years, Report Shows

byMaaz Ismail

August 2, 2025

New report confirms that global warming continues to accelerate Deadly heatwaves across Western Europe marked this the hottest June on ...

Nearly 2/3 of Europe’s Heatwave Deaths Linked to Human-Caused Global Warming

byLena McDonough

July 9, 2025

Today’s ESG Updates Fossil Fuels to Blame for Nearly ⅔ of Deaths in Europe’s June Heatwave: New study attributes the ...

How Does Climate Change Impact Inflation?

byMatt Davies

March 26, 2024

A recent study, conducted by European Central Bank (ECB) experts in collaboration with researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate ...

Last Month Was by Far the World’s Hottest November on Record

byYale Climate Connections

December 26, 2023

November 2023 was by far the hottest November on record globally in analyses dating back to 1850, said NOAA’s National ...

How Will El Niño Change in the Future?

byDr Malte Stuecker - Assistant Professor in the Department of Oceanography and the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoaand1 others

September 25, 2023

El Niño and La Niña events are likely to get stronger over the next few decade before possibly weakening towards ...

How Dangerous Is Extreme Heat to Humans?

bySteven Sherwood - Professor and Deputy Director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales

August 19, 2023

The media reporting around heatwaves that have hammered the northern hemisphere has been unequivocal: the simultaneous record-breaking heat has "pushed the ...