Eighty-one-year-old Felisa Cuc walks the path to her home in rural Sepur Zarco, Guatemala, trying to outrun the heat. Thousands of kilometres away, in a district in Rajasthan, another woman leaves before sunrise to fetch water, hoping to finish the walk before the day's heat becomes unbearable. Neither woman set the thermostat on the planet. …
Aruna Roy left the Indian Administrative Service to work alongside rural communities, leading a grassroots movement that resulted in the Right to Information Act and influenced MGNREGA. Her journey demonstrates how citizen-led activism reshaped transparency, accountability, and democratic participation in India.
Western Europe registered its hottest June on record as heat-breaking weather smashed national temperature records across several European nations within days this summer. Temperatures in Denmark topped 37C - beating a previous high that has stood since 1975 - as 39.4C in the Netherlands on June 26 set a new national high, and Bilbao in …
