Australia: Extreme Heat Threatens Lives

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Denham Court Housing Estate in Western Sydney. Housing estates with homes crammed close together capture and store heat that radiates from one neighbor to the next. January 28, 2022. © 2022 Matthew Abbott for Human Rights Watch (Sydney) – Australian local, state, and federal governments should act to protect their populations from the foreseeable harms of heatwaves exacerbated by climate change, Human Rights Watch said today in a new photo essay on the struggles of living with extreme heat. The photographs show life in Greater Western Sydney, where geography and…

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