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Displaying 90 of about 3249 results… Study says 37 per cent of heat-related deaths in summer are linked to climate change … An international team of researchers has quantified how heat-related deaths are attributable to global warming, with … 43 countries an average of 37 per cent of warm-season heat-related deaths could be attributed to anthropogenic …
… Athens. Now Freetown has appointed Africa's first chief heat officer, a mother on a mission to shield her city and … as she did as a small girl, stepping out without fear of heat stroke. "Climate change is a global issue, just like … said Kargbo. Kargbo is already steering a range of anti-heat initiatives, from tree planting to waste collection and …
… how local governments in Canada are adapting to extreme heat and the increasing risk of extreme events due to climate … and implementation of actions to address extreme heat risks. This report helps to raise awareness of health risks from extreme heat, offers examples of heat-health adaptation and is …
… 4.1 billion people in global South potentially exposed to heat stress at home Need for affordable, efficient cooling … Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are vulnerable to heat-related stress, and lack access to technology to cool … has important implications for reducing the risk of heat-related deaths and dysfunction and improving the …
… EHN spoke with heat equity experts about how young people can work toward protecting the most vulnerable from extreme heat and advancing climate justice. Last summer was the … Washington and British Columbia. “The effects of that heat wave were compounded by the fact that many housing units in …
… Covid-19 began to surge in Southern California, so did the heat. In the East Los Angeles neighborhood of Boyle Heights, … spaces like shopping malls or movie theaters to escape the heat. But the pandemic closed many of those places. Local … cooling centers open during the near-triple-digit heat wave, including one adjacent to Boyle Heights. But residents …
… Key findings The heat (based on observations and forecast) is very extreme … weather. We estimate that the probability to have such a heat or higher is generally more than two times higher today … Here we present an attribution study of the ongoing heat wave made in near real time using well assessed …
… to a systematic underestimation in the frequency of heat days. The error is based in the previously unnoticed … A commonly used method to define extremes such as heat days takes the adaptation to local conditions into … Antarctica, allowing for a comparison in the occurrence of heat days between these climatically diverse regions. In the …
… I were to tell you that there were nearly 2,800 cases of heat-related illness among active-duty members of the US … at home in the US, thousands of servicepeople suffer from heat-related illnesses like heat exhaustion and heat stroke every year, and the problem …
… The Climate Council’s ‘2017: Record-breaking Year for Heat and Extreme Weather’ report coincides with this … new height’s in just 12 months, with more than 260 heat and low rainfall records smashed throughout one season … broke records for hot, dry conditions with more than 260 heat and low rainfall records broken throughout winter. The …
… Niño and human-caused global warming. With 93% of excess heat stored in the oceans, ocean heat content down to 2 000 meters also hit a new record. … set yet more new monthly temperature records, with the heat especially pronounced in the high northern latitudes. …
… ever hotter and hungrier world. All the evidence is that heat waves, drought, windstorm and flooding are likely with … slightly to compensate for the adverse impacts of extreme heat on yields of maize and soybeans over time-frames of … ever hotter and hungrier world. All the evidence is that heat waves, drought, windstorm and flooding are likely with …
… the Sydney Morning Herald on the need to mitigate 'urban heat' in the Sydney region . Looking at the bigger picture … of February 2009 claimed 170 lives, while there were 432 heat-associated deaths in Victoria and South Australia from … to February of that year . Sadly, with a rise in extreme heat events the research shows that the number of related …
… not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of … not to scare the public. The unparalleled setting of new heat extremes is forcing the continual upwards trending of …
… in their own ways. While the former suffers from urban heat island effects and higher temperatures, the latter … with behavioral change can improve resilience to extreme heat. Appropriate communication about extreme heat dangers, along with appropriate provision of food, …