It's getting dangerously, fatally, hotter. In Bamako, Athens, Santiago, Mexico City, Podgorica, Mecca, Rio de Janeiro, Paraburdoo, Delhi, Toronto, San Salvador, Beijing, Dubrovnik, Skikda, Rome, Cairo, Trenton, and many other places, 2024 temperatures are deadly and breaking records. What are your techniques, strategies, methods, neat tricks for dealing with the heat? Or just write about whatever is on your mind, in your heart, or on your plate, because this is your weekly free thread, fellow MeFites.

Armchair travel India's ecology and climate change with Sam Matey in a wonderful heavily photographed ten-part travel report that deep dives into India's wildlife, people working in the field and efforts to ameliorate the challenges. The last piece, the hottest day in Delhi's History is an excellent introduction to Matey's framing of the environmental catastrophes we face - recognizing the scale, finding the stories and most of all, pointing out the helpers.