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Displaying 2 of about 2 results… Soil drought could reduce human death rates during heat waves by lowering air humidity, while cooling strategies … like wetting surfaces could inadvertently intensify lethal heat stress, according to a new study in the journal Science … atmospheric modelling, and meta-analyses of heat wave mortality. “Given the increasing tendency of droughts …
… third of the American population was under some form of heat advisory, with some areas reporting triple digit … and more severe because of record concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. What we are witnessing today … that for 1.5°C of global warming, there will be increasing heat waves, longer warm seasons and shorter cold seasons. At …