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Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found. The Guardian: Land clearance is raising the temperature in the rainforests of the Amazon, Congo and south-east Asia because it reduces shade, diminishes rainfall and increases the risk of fire, the authors of the paper found. Deforestation is responsible for more than a third of the warming experienced by people living in the affected regions, which is on top of the effect of global climate disruption. About 345 million people across the tropics suffered from this localised, deforestation-caused warming between 2001 and 2020. For 2.6 million of them, the additional heating added 3C to their heat exposure. In many cases, this was deadly. The researchers estimated that warming due to deforestation accounted for 28,330 annual deaths over that 20-year period.

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In a BBC documentary, the Made in Chelsea star, 37, admitted that being off-grid as the FBI attempted to track down Inigo Philbrick , 38, 'wasn't so bad after all'.

It is as if the last three years had never happened. Emma Raducanu is back at the US Open, still wearing red and still thrashing all comers.

At any moment a thick blanket of silence may prevent any further discussion of the case of Lucy Letby, if new charges are brought. In my view, the Letby debate must not be closed down.

My new husband and I had planned the perfect honeymoon. It was all I talked about with family and friends leading up to the wedding, excitedly showing them photos of the expensive resort.

No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data

Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking explainable AI models that can identify patterns suggestive of malfeasance.…

He said the city has a "soft place" in his heart due to being raised down the road in Maldon

Joe Readman, a musical theatre actor based in London, first noticed a painless lump in his groin earlier this summer. Within weeks, he experienced night sweats, itchy skin and even fainted.

Don't let it happen to you

Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise's on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org's Azure environment. The criminals then contacted the victim via a Microsoft Teams account that they'd also compromised in the attack, demanding a ransom payment for the stolen files.…

Erling Haaland has made a name change to his shirt for the Norwegian national team ahead of his country's upcoming World Cup qualifiers.

The FBI and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies around the world warned Wednesday that a Chinese-government hacking campaign that previously penetrated nine U.S. telecommunications companies has expanded into other industries and regions, striking at least 200 American organizations and 80 countries. From a report: The joint advisory was issued with the close allies in the Five Eyes English-language intelligence-sharing arrangement and also agencies from Finland, Netherlands, Poland and the Czech Republic, an unusually broad array meant to demonstrate global resolve against what intelligence officials said is a pernicious campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping. "The expectation of privacy here was violated, not just in the U.S., but globally," FBI Assistant Director Brett Leatherman, who heads the bureau's cyber division, told The Washington Post in an interview. Chinese hackers won deep access to major communication carriers in the U.S. and elsewhere, then extracted call records and some law enforcement directives, which allowed them to build out a map of who was calling whom and whom the U.S. suspected of spying, Leatherman said. Prominent politicians in both major U.S. parties were among the ultimate victims.

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Archaeologists have uncovered ruins of an ancient factory in Israel that may offer the clearest evidence yet for a key biblical story.

Zena, 65, from Oxted, Surrey, was on holiday in The Gambia two years ago when she came across Ebrima, a waiter at her resort who is 44-years-old.

The ultra-shiny look is trending - but the effects of ageing can make it feel out of reach. Rosie Green reveals how to transform straw to silk

The first series, which came out this spring, was in the Top Ten globally for two weeks and pulled in 5.3million views.

When Travis first tried to give Taylor a friendship bracelet bearing his phone number - only to fumble the pass - it seemed that this was destined to be another of the pop star's doomed relationships.

Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits

Broadcom has opened its VMware Explore conference in a defiant tone, declaring it now offers a superior user experience compared to public clouds.…

It is the first time middle-income households have seen a yearly fall in their disposable income since September 2023, according to Asda's Income Tracker.

If you don't have the budget of a billionaire, fear not as Daily Mail has tracked down some high street alternatives to get Taylor's look for a fraction of the price.

The Duchess of Sussex , who resides in Montecito, spoke to Bloomberg's Emily Chang to promote the second season of her Netflix lifestyle series, With Love, Meghan, on Tuesday.