☂Health

floodwater reaching dense settlement on three continents, and a heat tier that reaches outdoor workers

The acute tiers are mostly empty and the exposure is not. Across the American mid-South, 0 Extreme Heat Warnings sit above 12 Heat Advisories in eleven states — the tier that reaches outdoor workers and people without cooling, and the one that rarely makes a headline. Where water is the hazard, the health question follows the standing water rather than the rain: Nigeria's Benue states face a dated release onto ground already flooded, which is when water, sanitation and disease surveillance can be staged in advance; Vietnam's evacuees and Bangladesh's rising rivers are the same problem without the schedule; and Nepal's ledger — a reported ~1,386 dead and ~5,130 missing at a Sep-12 vintage — is a recovery-access problem, with roads passable only as far as Nuwakot. (Handled with care; carried at vintage, not re-counted.)

carried on 27 of the last 62 editions — since Jul 20, the 10 most recent shown.