The Guardian – Silent killer heatwaves in Europe claim 50,000 lives
The Guardian’s top story covers a climate study that suggests hot weather “inflamed by carbon pollution” killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year. The paper says the toll would have been “80% higher if people had not adapted to rising temperatures”, which it says shows that “efforts to adapt societies to heatwaves had been effective”.
Elsewhere, there is a report on Labour MPs closing their X accounts because of what they call the spread of hate and disinformation on the platform.
The front page also features a large image of Tom Daley as the Team GB Diver announces his retirement.
Heat aggravated by carbon pollution killed 50,000 in Europe last year – study
Hot weather inflamed by carbon pollution killed nearly 50,000 people in Europe last year, with the continent warming at a much faster rate than other parts of the world, research has found.
The findings come as wildfires tore through forests outside Athens, as France issued excessive heat warnings for large swathes of the country, and the UK baked through what the Met Office expects will be its hottest day of the year.
Doctors call heat a “silent killer” because it claims far more lives than most people realise. The devastating mortality rate in 2023 would have been 80% higher if people had not adapted to rising temperatures over the past two decades, according to the study published in Nature Medicine.
Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’
Labour MPs have begun quitting X in alarm over the platform, with one saying Elon Musk had turned it into “a megaphone for foreign adversaries and far-right fringe groups”.
Over the weekend, newly elected MPs took to WhatsApp groups to raise growing concerns about the role X played in the spread of misinformation amid the far-right-led riots in parts of England and Northern Ireland.
Two Labour MPs are known to have told colleagues they were leaving the platform. One of them, Noah Law, has disabled his account. Other MPs who still use X have begun examining alternatives, including Threads, which is owned by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and the open-source platform Bluesky.
‘I’m at the Olympics and this is bloody cool’: Tom Daley’s biggest moments
Tom Daley is only 30 but it feels like he’s been part of our sporting lives for ever. Britain’s most successful diver has gone from prodigy to legend over five consecutive Olympics. Here’s a look at how the Guardian has followed Daley’s journey over the years.
Daley made his highly anticipated Olympic debut in Beijing in 2008. It wasn’t straightforward.
Richard Williams reported how Daley and Blake Aldridge, his partner in the 10m synchronised diving final, fell out as they finished last. “A crack appeared in the shiny, happy surface of a collaboration that had always looked dangerously lopsided,” Williams wrote.
Today’s news summary – Paper Talk
If you are someone who reads every perspective of a story, here is a news summary of all of today’s front pages from today’s newspapers; summarised in a 2-minute read
Editorial 13 August 2024.
Tuesday’s front pages cover various domestic and international political stories as tensions across the Middle East and Europe continue to escalate. Many of the newspapers feature images of British diver Tom Daley – who announced his retirement just weeks after securing a silver medal at the Paris Olympics.
Elsewhere, many of the papers react to the report on the failings in the treatment of the Nottingham attacker, Valdo Calocane. The papers pick up on comments that a doctor had warned years earlier that Calocane could end up killing someone.