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High temperatures make baseball players and coaches more irritable, and are associated with an increase in violence.
Fire weather reason – when wildfires are most likely to strike – has expanded almost everywhere.
In parts of Australia that are already very hot, we show how climate change is driving inequities even further – in housing, energy security and health.
Exposure to hot and dry conditions can damage the DNA of nestling birds in their first few days of life – meaning they age earlier and produce less offspring.
And after India banned wheat exports in May due to the high temperatures, we find out how vulnerable crops are to extreme heat. Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Beekeepers in British Columbia reported honeybee deaths during the 2021 heat dome. Other insects may also be at risk.
Many of the temperatures presently being recorded in Africa, and those projected in the next decade, are already close to the limits of human survival, or “liveability”.
Hot, humid population centers are becoming epicenters of heat risk as climate changes worsens. It’s calling into question the conventional wisdom that urbanization uniformly reduces poverty.
Research shows climate change is already affecting the healthy psychological development of children worldwide. Children’s mental health risks will only accelerate as climate change advances.
Much of the US has been experiencing heat waves in recent weeks. An economist explains how the often record-high temperatures can affect the economy.
Not every extreme weather event is caused by climate change, but heat waves that were once ridiculously improbable are showing up more often. Just ask Portland.
Extreme heat warnings can help change our dangerous relationship with hot weather.
Climate change has profound, but often overlooked, consequences for human health.
It’s hard enough to attract and keep health workers in the Northern Territory as it is. Now climate change is threatening to make things worse.
As our cities get hotter, rebuilding whole suburbs better suited to the heat is not an option. Instead, we can draw from the best examples of how to adapt neighbourhoods and behaviours.
Climate models are likely underestimating the true severity of future warming in urban areas.
Extreme heat could kill 5,000 people each year in the UK by the 2050s.
As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are becoming more frequent, intense and longer, according to global weather data.
‘Wet-bulb’ temperature records show that deadly thresholds for heat and humidity are arriving faster than anticipated.
Top contributors
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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PhD Candidate in Climate Change and Health, University of Reading
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Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
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Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography and Director of the Centre for Wildfire Research, Swansea University
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NERC Independent Research Fellow in Climate Science, University of East Anglia
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor, Aga Khan University
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Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor, Aga Khan University Hospital
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Associate, Institute for Climate Change & Adaptation, University of Nairobi
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Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney
