After Taylor Swift concert death, Brazil searches for accountability

Washington Post

Concertgoers waited for hours in temperatures that reached a heat index of 138 degrees to see Taylor Swift’s first show of the year in Brazil. Many of them were anticipating the concert experience of their dreams: Swift’s Eras Tour had finally come to their country after crashing ticket servers in the U.S. and inspiring its own movie. They didn’t expect to leave feeling like they survived a nightmare.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

Pakistan bears the brunt of global extreme heat illness and mortality

Washington Post

Pakistan is the epicenter of a new global wave of disease and death linked to climate change, according to a Washington Post analysis of climate data, leading scientific studies, interviews with experts and reporting from some of the places bearing the brunt of Earth’s heating.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

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