内容摘要：This story was first published on Sep. 26, 2024. It was updated on Sep. 28, 2024 to correct the number of villages facing infrastructure damage from erosion, 144 not 114. It also corrects the name of the organization that authored the Unmet Needs report, and where Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer works as the director of climate initiatives. It is the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, not the Alaska Native Travel Health Consortium.

This story was first published on Sep. 26, 2024. It was updated on Sep. 28, 2024 to correct the number of villages facing infrastructure damage from erosion, 144 not 114. It also corrects the name of the organization that authored the Unmet Needs report, and where Jackie Qatalina Schaeffer works as the director of climate initiatives. It is the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, not the Alaska Native Travel Health Consortium.

on Thursday spoke of the courage, resilience and hope of Australian citizen Yang Hengjun, who was convicted last year in China of espionage.The plight of the 59-year-old Chinese-born democracy blogger, who was arrested on arrival in China on a flight from New York in 2019, remains an impediment to an improving bilateral relationship between Canberra and Beijing.

Albanese said Yang had recently written to him from a Beijing prison.“It was a message of profound courage and resilience and hope despite his difficult circumstances,” Albanese told reporters in Jakarta, where he was making his first overseas visit since his government was“We continue to advocate for Dr. Yang’s interests and wellbeing at every opportunity and I have certainly asked our ambassador to convey that very directly to Dr. Yang,” Albanese added.

following a closed court trial in February last year and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. Such sentences are often commuted to life in prison after the two years.Albanese has raised Yang’s detention in meetings with China’s leaders since the prime minister’s center-left Labor Party was first elected in 2022.

Since that election, Beijing has lifted a ban on minister-to-minister communications with Australia and removed a series of official and unofficial

that had cost Australian exporters up to 20 billion Australian dollars ($13 billion) a year.between 1992 and 2024, according to the Korey Stringer Institute at the University of Connecticut, and thousands more are sickened each year. This summer has been especially bad, with five high school players dying since July of suspected heat-related illnesses,

who collapsed during drills last month at his Alabama high school practice.“I just want to know what really happened that day. What was he doing? From the autopsy and the doctor’s standpoint, what did y’all see what was going on? You know, I just want answers,” said Wilkins’ mother, Regina Adams.

found that high school football players are 11 times more likely to suffer heat illnesses than all other sports combined.Experts believe football players are more vulnerable because they wear heavy equipment that traps heat and have bigger body sizes that produce more heat, especially offensive and defensive lineman who can can weigh upwards of 300 pounds. They also may not yet be fully acclimated to working out in summer conditions, sometimes play on artificial turf which increases the heat and may have underlying health conditions.