☂Health

a heat index that reaches outdoor workers, and floodwater reaching dense settlement

The acute tier is empty and the exposure is not. Across the American mid-South, 0 Extreme Heat Warnings sit above 12 Heat Advisories at a 105–110 °F index over nine states — the tier that makes headlines is the one that cleared, and the tier that governs work-rest cycles, hydration scheduling and shift timing for people outdoors is the one still live. Elsewhere the health load is water: floodwater across dense settlement in Vietnam's delta and across about ten Bangladeshi districts raises the ordinary, unglamorous risks — contaminated supply, displacement, interrupted routine care — for populations already carrying a season of it. In Nepal, recovery is now the health story, with victim identification and restored telecoms advancing on a ledger that has not moved in three days. (Handled with care.)

carried on 26 of the last 61 editions — since Jul 20, the 10 most recent shown.