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Displaying 120 of about 300 results… Last summer’s heat dome caused more than record-breaking temperature … significantly higher climate change anxiety following the heat dome. They believe their study, published in the Journal … 13 per cent among British Columbians after the heat dome. Most participants reported that they were much …
… has issued the first ever Red warning for exceptional heat. In Portugal and Spain temperatures have reached highs up to around 46 degrees Celsius. Exceptional heat is expected to affect a large part of England early this … places and perhaps even reaching 40°C. The Red Extreme heat national severe weather warning will cover Monday and …
… We will welcome: Kurt Shickman, Director of the Extreme Heat Initiatives at the Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center … and Eleni Myrivili, Senior Resilience Advisor and Chief Heat Officer for the City of Athens and Senior Consultant and … We will welcome: Kurt Shickman, Director of the Extreme Heat Initiatives at the Arsht-Rockefeller Resilience Center …
… and railway infrastructures due to an increase in extreme heat corresponding to four different global warming levels … railways have a greater propensity to buckle under extreme heat. The choice of transport construction materials and … a 4 °C global warming level, increased levels of extreme heat in EU + UK cause annual transport O&M costs to rise by …
… will use maps to inform efforts to combat extreme heat. Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event , but … for the first time, two international cities. "Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather event and …
… up the sun’s rays and few trees provide respite from the heat. A short walk away in Sandton, breezes circulate between … than 100 volunteers ventured out into the streets carrying heat stress monitors. The study, made possible by the … City Resilience Program, established striking facts about heat today and how it relates to historical legacies and …
… In late June 2021, North America’s most severe heat wave in history hit British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific … economic, environmental and social vulnerabilities . Heat waves silently roll in with only a shimmer of visible …
… 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 …
… air humidity. Since lowering air humidity may reduce human heat stress, the net impact of soil desiccation on the … More specifically, morning dry soils attenuate afternoon heat stress anomaly by ~5%. This occurs because of reduced … contributes not only to the escalation of heat- wave temperatures (4, 9, 16–18) but also to the reduction in …
… and large parts of South Asia experienced prolonged heat, that at the time of writing, May 2022, still hasn’t … with much less than average rain have led to extreme heat conditions with devastating consequences for public … fallout, and cascading effects from the current heat wave will however take months to determine, including the …
… the background of global climate change, the increasing heat health risk from the combined effect of changes in high … (town, township, neighborhood committee, and equivalent) heat health risk and adaptability assessments are still … Geographics 10(1): Article 7. Klinenberg, E. 2003. Heat wave: A social autopsy of disaster in Chicago. Chicago and …
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The study estimated that in 2020, more than 3,30,000 persons died in India because of exposure to particulate matter from fossil fuel combustion. “Improvements in air quality will help to prevent deaths resulting from exposure to fossil fuel derived particulate matter,” the report said.
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The study stated that climate change has…
… 43 individuals who represent, serve, and/or are part of heat-vulnerable communities in San Diego County, California, … for increasing the reach and effectiveness of heat risk education and warning messaging. A growing number … to evaluation include lack of health surveillance for heat wave mortality, emergency dispatches, hospitalizations, and …
… Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. … others just a few miles away. Within these “ micro-urban heat islands ,” communities can experience heat wave conditions well before officials declare a heat …
… The cancellation of the Manitoba Marathon due to extreme heat may provide a case study for athletic event management … course shutdown was handled after the event. Racing in the heat Hot road races may become more common. The climate … have psychological consequences . Runners can train for heat, wear appropriate clothing and hydrate, but even these …