Climate change driving 'record threats to health' - report

Climate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report said yesterday, the experts warning that "wasted time has been paid in lives".

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The new report was released as heatwaves, fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods have lashed the world during what is expected to surpass 2023 to become the hottest year on record.

It also comes just weeks before the United Nations COP29 talks are held in Azerbaijan - and days before a US election that could see climate change sceptic Donald Trump return to the White House.

The eighth Lancet Countdown on health and climate change, developed by 122 experts including from UN agencies such as the World Health Organisation, painted a dire picture of death and delay.