The Beijing Organizing Committee has given assurances that snow will not be an issue during, or after, the 2022 Winter Olympics. Experts have told DW otherwise. We take a look at some of the claims.
The talks took on urgency this summer after federal projections showed growing risks of Lake Mead falling to critically low levels, despite plans for mandatory cutbacks throughout the Southwest that the states agreed to in 2019.
Extreme heat causes a cascade of climate chaos, and the way we deal with it — air conditioning — is only cooking our planet faster. Is there a better way to cool ourselves down?