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Displaying 255 of about 1392 results… As she said, Greece has also shown leadership on heat and wildfire management by piloting this year the … 'Antinero' programme, and hosting a regional meeting on heat and wildfire risks and to accelerate implementation of … shows that just 24 hours warning of a coming storm or heat wave can cut the ensuing damage by 30 percent. Despite these …
… that young African children are at particular risk of heat stress impacts. However, estimates of heat-related deaths in African children are limited, … little research into the impact of climate change on child heat-related deaths in any region of the world. To address …
… stories of farmhands and other outdoor workers dying from heat-related impacts are stark reminders that few regulations exist to protect laborers from extreme heat. The average number of days U.S. agricultural workers … have long been vulnerable to the effects of extreme heat in the workplace, but increasing temperatures mean a …
… highlights gaps in municipal planning for often dangerous heat This month, Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix all posted … a scorching summer. Yet despite more frequent and intense heat waves on the horizon, cities are underprepared to deal … found that 78% of these cities’ climate plans mentioned heat as a problem, but few offered a comprehensive strategy …
… by the University of Bristol on recent past and future heat levels. So what does this tell us? Which neighbourhoods are most affected by heat now and in the future? The research identified which … UK Health Security Agency), there is evidence that excess heat-related mortality is first detectable above an …
… to cause climate change, yet they are experiencing extreme heat waves, floods and other climate-related disasters. They … extreme rainfall on the heels of a glacier-melting heat wave flooded nearly one-third of the country in the …
… Specifically, climate change increased the likelihood of heat-related deaths by 20% in London and 70% in Paris. More … on low-incomes and ethnic minorities . Correspondingly, heat extremes do not typically evoke a strong sense of threat … lethal effects of hot weather. Racial disparities in heat vulnerability There are stark racial inequalities in the …
… state of Tonga. The volcano created a powerful shock wave and displaced huge amounts of water, triggering a … state of Tonga. The volcano created a powerful shock wave and displaced huge amounts of water, triggering a …
Egypt, an African nation of more than 106 million people, finds itself at the heart of two of the largest and most pressing challenges the world is facing today – the food and climate crises.
It is soon to host UN-led climate negotiations, and when world leaders descend on the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh next month they’l…
… sectors are significantly higher during periods of high heat compared with periods of more moderate weather, a recent … protections for outdoor workers, especially as extreme heat events become more common with climate change, … in the months of April through October because the average heat index was above 55 degrees for that period. In addition …
… 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 …
… New report details how extreme heat events foreshadow a less habitable world. (Geneva): … a future with deadlier, more frequent, and more intense heat-related humanitarian emergencies, a new report warns. … United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27), Extreme Heat: Preparing for the heatwaves of the future says that, …
… Australia, intense solar heating formed a string of Heat Lows over the continent. This formed an inland trough … aloft. The latter was produced by a mid-level pressure wave (Rossby wave) that propagated eastwards in the … eastwards in the subtropics, impacting the Pilbara Heat Low and Western Australian Trough in WA and then merging …
… an earthquake, huge wildfires in California, a 30-meter wave that capsizes a ship — these are rare events and because … predicted by model by uncovering the probable nonlinear wave conditions they need to form. The bottleneck with this … quantify when rogue waves will form by looking at probable wave conditions that nonlinearly interact over time, leading …
… for cooling and the risk of residents suffering from heat stress. To help Singapore stay cool and improve urban … School of Design and Environment led a team to examine the heat balance in the street canyon – where the street is … to estimate the impact of urban planning on anthropogenic heat dispersion. “The weak removal of anthropogenic heat is …