Month: July 2025

  July 8 – This is an excerpt of the Sustainable Switch newsletter, where we make sense of companies and governments grappling with climate change, diversity, and human rights on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. To receive the full newsletter in your inbox for free sign up here. Make sense of the latest ESG trends affecting companies and governments with the Reuters Sustainable Switch newsletter. Sign up here. Hello, Deadly downpours hit Texas, United States, over the weekend, with a death toll from the catastrophic floods reaching at least 96 people, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp continues. Meanwhile, a powerful…

 High temperatures and humidity across north-eastern coast increase risk of heat exhaustion, illnesses and death More than a 100 million people in the US will face dangerous conditions over the weekend as a heat dome that has scorched much of the center of the country nudges eastward. Heat advisories were in place on Friday all across the north-eastern coast from Portland, Maine, to Wilmington, North Carolina, with the daytime heat index temperatures 10 to 15F above average in some places. Overnight temperatures will also be very warm and oppressively muggy, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). While thunderstorms, some of them severe, are expected…

  1. Texas Flooding Disaster and Government Scrutiny A devastating storm triggered catastrophic floods along the Guadalupe River over U.S. Independence Day weekend, resulting in at least 96 fatalities, including campers at Camp Mystic. Many remain missing as rescue efforts continue. The sudden flooding, caused by rainfall twice the forecast, rose within two hours and caught communities off guard.Reuters This tragedy is prompting serious scrutiny over the timeliness and effectiveness of federal and state warning systems. Critics point to staffing cuts at the National Weather Service under the current administration, raising questions about preparedness.Reuters 2. Federal Judge Blocks Birthright Citizenship…