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Canada’s warning More and more of the world will soon be too hot for humans to live in Simon Lewis

he climate crisis means that summer is a time of increasingly dangerous heat. In the Pacific north-west last week, temperature records were not broken, but obliterated. In another heatwave earlier in June, five Middle East countries topped 50 C. The extreme heat reached Pakistan, where 20 children in one class were reported to have fallen unconscious and needed hospital treatment for heat stress. Thankfully, all survived.

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