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Displaying 15 of about 1379 results… The summer of 2022 brought extreme heat over most of the Eurasian continent and North America. … warming led to extraordinarily long-lasting extreme heat waves. A research team from the Institute of Atmospheric … Chinese Academy of Sciences has reviewed the extreme heat wave events of this summer as well as the progress in related …
… catastrophe, countries in western Europe experienced a heat wave that resulted in 27,000 dead: 15,000 deaths in France, … critical public health measures that can save life in a heat emergency are early warning systems, the immediate …
Last year was the hottest year of the decade for some parts of Sri Lanka, while it was the second hottest year after 2016 for most of other parts of the country. The annual mean temperatures calculated from the data taken from 22 weather stations across the country show that 2019 was the hottest year of the decade for nine areas covered by those station…
… Mavalankar, Meredith Connolly and Anjali Jaiswal A deadly heat wave is currently bearing down on communities across India, … The spiking temperatures underscore the need for local heat adaptation plans and early warning systems to reduce the …
… Scorching summer heat is hard to imagine now in mid-winter Paris, but in six … world's athletes arrive for the Olympics, another pounding heat wave would spell trouble for organizers. [...] Organizers of …
… people died than would normally have been expected as a heat wave gripped Europe’s south this summer, according to … data. Across the Mediterranean, people were brought low by heat of an intensity and duration that is becoming …
… who say their study is the first to show the country’s heat-wave trajectory forecasts a 75 per cent increase in heat waves by 2030, a 189 per cent by 2060 and a 277 per cent …
… land in spring can have on the intensity of summer heat waves by retaining higher soil moisture levels between … that spring irrigation reduced the intensity of summer heat waves by 0.29°C and 2.5 days, and when combined with … through the year. Though the intensity of extreme heat wave events may be reduced, these climatic challenges will …
… By Vinayak Dewan The death toll from the intense heat that strikes India each year between March and July has … the situation around. Roofs were painted white to reduce heat absorption; state governments adjusted working hours to … [...] … By Vinayak Dewan The death toll from the intense heat that strikes India each year between March and July has …
… in Quebec have developed a new warning system for heat waves that they say is more precise and better adapted to climate change. Quebec has had a heat-alert system in effect since 2010, but researchers are modifying it because they expect periods of extreme heat will extend beyond the summer months in the future. The …
… The heat wave in week 30 of 2019 caused 2,964 deaths. This is nearly … more deaths than during an average summer week. During the heat waves in 2006, the number of additional fatalities per … mortality rates. This year, there was a nationwide heat wave from 22 up to and including 27 July. It was brief but …
… The world’s first named heat wave hit Seville, Spain, this week, pushing temperatures past … and earning the most severe tier in the city’s new heat wave ranking system. [...] Zoe is the first named heat …
… years have all come in the last 17 years. Several of those heat waves bear the fingerprints of human-caused climate … [...] Extreme weather events have always happened, and heat waves would occur even without global warming. But a … greenhouse-gas emissions had never occurred. The 2018 heat wave across Northern Europe, for example, was made five times …
… [...] South Asia’s heat wave is unusual because it’s happening much earlier in the … of India and Pakistan are especially vulnerable to extreme heat. About 60 percent of India’s workforce and about 40 …
… [...] India's vulnerability to extreme heat increased 15% from 1990 to 2019, according to a 2021 … like the old and the poor, have the highest exposure to heat. It and Brazil have the the highest heat-related mortality in the world, the report said. Farm …