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Blog: Working toward a shared language on hazardous extreme heat
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Blog: Working toward a shared language on hazardous extreme heat

30 June 2026

By Reba Farzana(Climate Centre intern Reba Farzana is doing a masters degree in geo-information and earth observation at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.)Climate and health conversations are full of technical language which includes terms that mean different things to different people, or which lack agreed definitions altogether.The gap matters because when experts from meteorology, public health, and humanitarian [...]

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US scientists: Now fully formed El Niño more likely than not to reach ‘very strong’ status

US scientists: Now fully formed El Niño more likely than not to reach ‘very strong’ status

11 June 2026

By the Climate Centre El Niño has now developed in the tropical Pacific and is likely to intensify to at [...]

Study: Extreme heat ‘a pervasive and escalating risk’ in South Asia

1 June 2026

By the Climate Centre The trend in more intense heatwaves – and with them potentially an increase in heat-related deaths [...]

Study: Extreme heat ‘a pervasive and escalating risk’ in South Asia