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Residents living in “shoebox” flats and other inadequate housing have experienced temperatures that feel like 52 degrees Celsius this summer, a climate NGO has found. A tenant in a “coffin home.” Photo: James Lee/HKFP. The CarbonCare InnoLab said in a press conference on Sunday that it took temperature and humidity readings at 86 households over the past two months, 80 per cent of which were cl...
“Horrific, horrendous, unbearable, unsafe.” That is how medical professionals describe the impact of this year’s heatwaves on Britain’s healthcare system, in response to a survey by the Doctors’ Association UK. In hospitals built for a cooler climate, staff are now dealing with patients too sweaty to receive intravenous drips, medication at risk of degrading in high temperatures and colleagues ...
