BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -With more than a half-million people worldwide dying from heat-related causes every year, a group of philanthropies is putting $300 million into developing ​life-saving solutions as global temperatures continue to rise. The money, announced this week at the COP30 climate negotiations in ‌Brazil, is aimed at developing data and figuring out the best investments for tackling rising risks from extreme heat, air pollution and infectious disease.

Preschool programs are intended to furnish small kids with different abilities important for their progress into standard school.

A humpback whale stranded for days off Germany's Baltic coast has gotten stuck on another sandbank, a Greenpeace spokeswoman said on Saturday. The unlucky animal had garnered media attention for days, after it got stranded on a sandbank off Germany's Timmendorfer Strand resort, near the city of Lübeck, early on Monday.