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… putting into action its plans to address increasing heat waves linked to climate change, threatening public … plans largely leave out the danger from extreme heat to people who are pregnant, one of the groups … Human Rights Watch found.  In June 2021, the first heat wave of the year temporarily made Germany the  hottest region …
… Jan 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The effects rising heat has on vulnerable workers in Southeast Asia is the focus … National University of Singapore (NUS), will examine how heat stress impacts outdoor and indoor workers, including … said Jason Lee, the lead researcher. The project, titled Heat-Safe, views heat as a "complex socio-environmental …
… More than 61,000 people died as a result of searing heat across Europe in the summer of 2022, according to a new … the link between temperature and human mortality to assess heat-related deaths across Europe during the summer of 2022. … The deaths were either direct consequences of the heat or caused by complications to underlying health …
… was characterised by an intense series of record-breaking heat waves, droughts and forest fires. While Eurostat, the … dates, until now the fraction of mortality attributable to heat had not been quantified. This is precisely what has been … analysis, published in Nature Medicine , estimates 61,672 heat-attributable deaths between 30 May and 4 September 2022. …

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