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Displaying 15 of about 22 results… hurting their fragile livelihoods, a survey finds Rising heat and heavier rains across South Asia, as the planet … street-food vendor, has also seen her income shrink as heat and unseasonal rains reduce the length of time she can … have led to a dip in paid work, with increasing cases of heat-stroke and water-borne diseases affecting families. In …
… tools include walls, boats, and evacuation drills. When a heat wave blanketed swaths of Washington state last summer with … Medical Center in Seattle. The state reported 100 heat-related deaths in one week. Since then, hospitals around …
… to continue for the foreseeable future. Unimaginable heat in China 🇨🇳 The longevity and intensity of the heatwave is hard to comprehend. Too many heat records to count, both day and night. Beibei hit 45°C … floods to date. These events were connected by a Rossby wave causing a high pressure pattern to get stuck over …
… Niño in living and fossilized Galápagos corals. In 1983, a heat wave struck the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, … of the eastern Pacific, but it triggers droughts, floods, heat waves, and other climate extremes across the globe. A …
… for only the fifth-warmest June-August , yet regional heat waves shattered records. Global warming is undoubtedly a … the increasing extremes that marked the summer of 2022 – heat waves, droughts and floods, sometimes one on top of the … than normal. In the Southern Hemisphere, that marine heat wave over the South Pacific led to the warmest and wettest …
… There are some ocean conditions which might render extreme heat events more likely. Being able to forecast these … An assessment of the predictive skill of subsurface ocean heat content, a key for successful seasonal predictions, is … upper ocean acts as a “memory bank” by providing long-term heat storage for the region. Our ability to predict seasonal …
… hot that they create their own weather, record-breaking heat waves and a vanishing Sierra snowpack. Against that … and the National Science Foundation. Coping with extreme heat California had its hottest summer on record in 2021 — … the very scope of the problem is spurring an unprecedented wave of innovation across California as clean energy …
… to read the planet's "vital signs" from carbon dioxide to wave height or temperatures of land and oceans. Copernicus … to read the planet's "vital signs" from carbon dioxide to wave height or temperatures of land and oceans. Copernicus …
… some types of extreme weather, especially those linked to heat. To track how the evidence on this fast-moving topic is … human influence or were inconclusive. Of the 152 extreme heat events that have been assessed by scientists, 93% found … the literature is heavily dominated by studies of extreme heat (30%), rainfall or flooding (25%) and drought (16%). …
… initiated or exacerbated by floods, wildfires and extreme heat, researchers report in The Journal of Climate Change and … functioning. As floods, wildfires, and extreme heat events increase in frequency and severity, they pose a … regulation of body temperature, the effects of extended heat waves can be severe. The inability to properly cool …
… on Earth so far in 2022. High in the mountains, the heat accelerated ice melt, causing glacial lake at Shisper … on Earth so far in 2022. High in the mountains, the heat accelerated ice melt, causing glacial lake at Shisper …
… [...] Summer heat is baking Richmond’s poorest neighborhoods, most of … 227,000, is adapting to climate disasters — mostly extreme heat, floods and droughts — with an eye toward environmental … County just north of San Francisco. [...] … [...] Summer heat is baking Richmond’s poorest neighborhoods, most of …
… Heatwaves within our cities can be attributed to the urban heat island effect (UHI), caused by the predominance of concrete and steel that absorb and retain heat, and the lack of cooling by water evaporating from … of urban greening to mitigate local flooding and excess heat is not automatic nor, in some areas, even possible,” …
… Asia. Subsequently, the monsoon is maintained by latent heat released by convection. But rainfall during the monsoon … El Niño, which is generally linked to more extreme heat and lower rainfall , and emissions of greenhouse gases … aerosols scatter sunshine, causing hazy days, and absorb heat. This reduces the temperature difference between the …
… start of 2022. But while the US hurricane season and 40C heat in the UK have captured headlines, many of Africa’s most … fact that many parts of the continent did battle extreme heat in 2022. For example, in July, temperatures reached a … 48C in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. This heat helped fan the flames of devastating wildfires (see …