The mercury is expected to hit dangerously high levels in Japan on Sunday, with weather authorities issuing heatstroke alerts in 19 prefectures nationwide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/06/japan/heatstroke-alert-issued-in-tokyo/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #heat #climatechange #heatwaves #environment #rainyseason #kanto

What’s the first word that comes to mind when you think of a Japanese summer? A new poll reveals whether those in their 20s and those older than 40 think of the same thing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/07/05/language/japanese-summer-words-fireworks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #heat #summer #heatstroke #jlptn3

Nothing beats a hot day better then some air-conditioned museums or -for the heck of it- libraries. 😊

Find them all at once on https://lokjo.com

#heat #libraries #museums #map#europe #heatwave #summer #cooldowntips

Bikey and her ride

#Pakistan
#Lahore
#streetPhotography
#woman
#motorbike
#calligraphy
#hijab
#heat

Southern Europeans braced for their first heat wave of summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world's fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/06/29/climate-change/europe-2025-summer-heat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #heat #climatechange #environment #europe

Incredible tool!

“Developed by University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the tool helps fill in gaps as the Trump administration takes a sledgehammer to federal climate, race, and ethnicity data resources.

“We want to provide facts, reliable data sources. We don’t want this to be something that gets erased from the policy sphere,” says Arturo Vargas Bustamante, faculty research director at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI).

“We don’t want this to be something that gets erased”
The Latino Climate & Health Dashboard includes data on extreme heat and air pollution, as well as asthma rates and other health conditions — issues that are linked to each other. High temperatures can speed up the chemical reactions that create smog. Chronic exposure to fine particle pollution, or soot, can increase the risk of a child developing asthma.“

#latino #heat #neighborhood #extreme#news #dashboard #ucla #ca
https://www.theverge.com/climate-change/694711/heatwave-latino-neighborhoods-data-dashboard-ucla

The heat wave that hit Japan last week would not have happened without human-induced climate change, according to an analysis from a nascent center focusing on weather attribution. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/japan/science-health/june-heat-climate-change/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #sciencehealth #heat #climatechange

Thought this article from Low Tech Magazine was very interesting, and encourages me to think of ways to reduce temperature, besides just AC, during the upcoming heatwave:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/06/dressing-and-undressing-the-home/

#lowtech #solarpunk #degrowth #anticonsumption #hvac #ac #heatwave #heat #cooling