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Displaying 7 of about 7 results… a post mortem in order for families to be compensated for heat-wave related deaths, reports Reuters. Recent natural … a post mortem in order for families to be compensated for heat-wave related deaths, reports Reuters. Recent natural …
… Insurance schemes launched for heat, cyclones, drought Value of parametric insurance seen at … in one of the world's first insurance schemes for extreme heat, launched this month by nonprofit Arsht-Rock Foundation … drought or building cooler homes to protect against rising heat, thus slashing losses. This could allow insurers to set …
This report provides a forward-looking approach to increasing investment in community mitigation, particularly for nature-based approaches that reduce long-term risks by increasing investment in forests, seagrasses, and other natural systems that can lower either the probability of a disaster occurring or reduce losses when it does occur. Such mitigatio…
… rural areas: cows grazing peacefully. But, by 2050, heat stress induced by climate change may drastically alter … measures are put in place, the number of extreme heat events driven by climate change – especially in the … – will increase. Poultry and pigs already face major heat stress challenges in many regions of the tropics where …
… change is the greatest long-term threat to human health. Heat stress, extreme cold, diminished food and fresh water … loom as the biggest dangers of a warmer world. Extreme heat kills and very recently we’ve seen intense heatwaves in … In the summer of 2016, a record-breaking two-day extreme heat event in the NSW Shoalhaven region resulted in the loss …
… ways. Climate change particularly affects formation of heat-waves, droughts, intense precipitation events, and in … US$ 5bn, would have amounted to more than US$ 100bn. Heat-waves and droughts Other events like heat-waves, droughts and wildfires contributed 15% (US$ …
… more frequent droughts, higher temperatures, more frequent heat waves, and extreme precipitation —are “almost certain to … trains for fear that rails would buckle in the intense heat. As temperatures climbed to close to 120 degrees, … systems, furthermore, may struggle to accommodate extreme heat. In June of this year, as a result of record high …