Topic: mecca

Californias Caldor fire moving east toward Lake Tahoe as firefighters continued to battle a blaze, August 23, 2021. (Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How deadly is climate change really?

Matthew Rozsa
A labourer is silhouetted against the setting sun as he bathes on a hot summer day in Jammu on June 1, 2024. (MUKESH GUPTA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change promises more deadly heat

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Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on September 3, 2017, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty/Karim Sahib)

Rising temps could endanger the Hajj

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Muslim pilgrims circumambulate the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on September 3, 2017, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (Getty/Karim Sahib)

What all Americans can learn from Hajj

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celebrating eid

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