This follows comments made by Zelenskyy in 2023 that the army needed 500,000 more men and pressure from the West to lower #Ukraines age of conscription.
Due to a #heatwave in the #mediterranean unusually high air temperatures have brought sand from the Sahara to Ukraine, reported the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center.
West African #heatwave: high humidity made 40°C feel like 50°C
"This comes after a regionwide heatwave last month which World Weather Attribution scientists said today was made ten times more likely by human-caused climate change."
This is why, if you can afford it, heatwave mitigation will pay off sooner rather than later:
Al Jazeera: Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro
"A heatwave stifling Brazil has set new records with Rio de Janeiro’s heat index hitting 62.3 degrees Celsius (144.1 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest in a decade, weather authorities say.
The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity."
Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro
"The heat index measures what a temperature feels like by taking into account humidity. The actual maximum temperature in the city was 42C on Monday, the Rio Alert weather system said."
"The lower 48 states just had the warmest winter in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Temperatures were more than 5 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than average. " #heatwave#climate#winter
Festival goers to Music and Arts Festival, Pitch, near the Grampians in Western Victoria, have been advised to leave amid warnings over extreme heat and fire danger. Organisers have refused to cancel the event.
There is a total fire ban declared for most of Victoria, plus threat of #bushfires with a Severe #heatwave this weekend with temperatures topping 39C or 40C.
@takvera one for #ClimateDiary ⬆️ - @CiaraNi i think talked about this a while back when a Danish cultural event was cancelled due to wildfire dangers. And during last year’s #Texas#Heatwave nothing was cancelled but many people fainted and rapper Big Pokey died performing in 40C room. Also just people having to stay at home, as @NatureMC
talked about last summer.
Climate change impacts culture and community, too.
Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat🥵
Extreme #Heatwave🌡️ are already here & they are killing tens of thousands of people. Blasting through 2 degrees Celsius of warming means they’ll happen many times more frequently
Australia: large new study involving hundreds of thousands of Victorian patients has confirmed ambulance callouts for chest pain rise notably as temperatures increase. “The findings suggest the state should brace for a rise in patients presenting to hospital with heat-related chest pains” #heathealth#heatwave#climatecrisis#Australia
#Vietnam farmers struggle for fresh #water as drought brings salinisation
"The area is crisscrossed by waterways, but the prolonged #heatwave and lack of rain are causing #salinisation -- the intrusion of salt water from the sea -- badly affecting crops in a region vital to feeding the nation of 90 million people."