By 2050, over 5 billion people — probably more than half the planet’s population — will be exposed to at least a month of health-threatening extreme heat when outdoors in the sun ...
In the U.S., more than 107 million people from the Great Lakes south to Texas and Louisiana could find themselves part of an “extreme heat belt” in the decades ahead. And while no one is ...
Heat is the number one weather-related killer. Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to ...
We’re not there, yet. But extreme heat, far less visually dramatic than hurricanes or floods, is claiming lives and ...
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Heat is the most direct and perhaps most deadly effect of climate change. Find a book excerpt here. Heat is the most direct and perhaps most deadly effect of climate change. We revisit a ...
The number of days that schools are closed for extreme heat have been ticking up in the U.S., but few countries track such data. U.S. schools are now canceling class for an average of six to seven ...
Mumtaz’s neighborhood, her city, her country — her very life as a poor Indian woman — reflect one of the world’s greatest emerging disparities in the era of extreme heat. Sana Mumtaz ...
The death of a toddler from extreme heat highlighted the risk of climate-related illnesses across Malaysia. The same week, Vietnam declared a state of emergency after abnormally high temperatures ...
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