内容摘要：The impacts and mining continue despite a March 2024 ruling by Indonesia’s constitutional court that small islands such as Kabaena require special protection from abnormally dangerous activities, including mining, as they threaten ecosystems in vulnerable areas.

The impacts and mining continue despite a March 2024 ruling by Indonesia’s constitutional court that small islands such as Kabaena require special protection from abnormally dangerous activities, including mining, as they threaten ecosystems in vulnerable areas.

At least 125 people have died so far, according to the World Weather Attribution team.“This is clearly related to climate change, the level of intensity that we are seeing, these risks,” said study co-author Karina Izquierdo, a Mexico City-based urban advisor for the Red Cross and Red Crescent Climate Centre.

Humanitarian worker Roger Duvan Lagunes carries a fan into the Cogra, an elderly shelter, in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)Humanitarian worker Roger Duvan Lagunes carries a fan into the Cogra, an elderly shelter, in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)Claudio Melchor, Manuel Cervantes and Javier Rojas sit by the window of the Cogra, an elderly shelter, to cool off from the high temperatures in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)

Claudio Melchor, Manuel Cervantes and Javier Rojas sit by the window of the Cogra, an elderly shelter, to cool off from the high temperatures in Veracruz, Mexico, on June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Felix Marquez)The alarming part about this heat wave, which technically is still cooking the North American continent, is that it’s no longer that out of the ordinary anymore, Otto said. Past studies by the group have looked at heat so extreme that they found it

, but this heat wave not so much.

“From a sort of weather perspective in that sense it wasn’t rare, but the impacts were actually really bad,” Otto told The Associated Press in an interview.Amy Lieberman from Hillsdale, New Jersey, foreground, joins Israelis waving flags as the convoy carrying freed Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander arrives after his release from Hamas captivity in Gaza to an army base in Reim, near the Gaza border, southern Israel, Monday, May 12, 2025.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

Amy Lieberman from Hillsdale, New Jersey, foreground, joins Israelis waving flags as the convoy carrying freed Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander arrives after his release from Hamas captivity in Gaza to an army base in Reim, near the Gaza border, southern Israel, Monday, May 12, 2025.(AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)Early Tuesday, an Israeli strike hit the surgery department at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Officials at the hospital said two people were killed and 10 wounded. They had initially reported three deaths but later amended their tally.

The Israeli military said it had precisely struck Hamas militants operating from within a command and control center at the hospital.Alexander’s release created a backlash against Netanyahu, whom critics accuse of having to rely on a foreign leader to help free the remaining hostages.