The rise of the truly cruel summer
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
In Japan it starts with the pulsating song of cicadas; in Alaska, with salmon swimming upstream. However it begins, summer in the northern hemisphere—where more than 85% of the world’s population live—soon involves dangerous levels of heat. This year is no exception—indeed, it carries the trend further. In Saudi Arabia more than 1,300 pilgrims died during the hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca, as temperatures exceeded 50°C. India’s capital, Delhi, endured 40 days above 40°C between May and June. And in Mexico scores of howler monkeys have been falling dead from the trees with heatstroke.
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Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
Will rich countries welcome them the way they did Chinese students?
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
Is your rent ever going to fall?
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
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The world’s atomic watchdog fears a terrifying regional arms race
Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
But China’s bullying of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines risks an explosion
The world’s rules-based order is cracking
Human-rights lawyers are trying to save laws meant to tame violent rulers