Older bodies are often more susceptible to heat illnesses.
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Older adults face greater health risks from extreme heat for several reasons, including their medications..
Most homes and buildings in Canada must generate their own heat, often using carbon-intensive methods.
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Underground thermal networks have the potential to revolutionize how Canadians heat their homes while helping to reduce carbon emissions.
Condensation and cold combine to create that layer of ice on car windshields in winter.
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When you’re running late in the winter, you don’t want to have to spend time scraping frost off your windshield. Try some expert-recommended techniques instead.
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With a record hot summer expected, will rooftop solar cover our need to be cool?
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In the first commitment of its kind, 63 countries promised to slash emissions from cooling and refrigeration.
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The pilot project opening in Sydney will use the best available evidence to keep vulnerable people cool on the hottest of days.
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Heat illnesses can vary, from relatively mild heat exhaustion to the potentially life-threatening condition of heat stroke. Here’s how to tell the difference.
It’s hard to keep a spacecraft cool, but ongoing research on the International Space Station might yield a solution.
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You can’t bring your AC to space, unfortunately, but innovative flow boiling and condensation research might lead to lighter, more efficient heating and cooling on spacecraft.
Extreme heat can affect how well machines function, and the fact that many machines give off their own heat doesn’t help.
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People aren’t the only ones harmed by heat waves. The hotter it gets, the harder it is for machines to keep their cool.
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The sunniest days also see the biggest demand for air con.
The temperature you feel on a hot, sunny day doesn’t always match the thermostat.
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Thermostats don’t tell the whole truth about heat, particularly in older homes.
Without home cooling, Phoenix’s weeks with temperatures over 110 F in July 2023 became dangerous.
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Health and climate change researchers explain the risks and why older adults, even those in northern states, need to pay attention.
Emissions from space heating and cooling in homes represent almost one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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Policies that encourage the use of low-carbon technology like heat pumps can help motivate residents to decarbonize their homes.
People buy produce at a wholesale market in Nakuru, Kenya, on Dec. 24, 2022.
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Many developing nations have little cold storage and lose much of their perishable food before it gets to markets. Climate-friendly refrigeration can provide huge environmental and social benefits.
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Soaring power bills add to people’s worries about keeping their homes cool, especially as their health can suffer if they don’t. Fortunately, there are effective and affordable ways to beat the heat.
Air conditioners are one source of leaking HFCs.
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The US Senate voted to ratify the Kigali Amendment, agreeing on a bipartisan vote to phase down climate-warming HFCs. Now what?
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Heat pumps use a fraction of the energy of traditional electric or gas heaters, which means they slash both energy costs and emissions.
Is it better to cool your house all day, or adjust the A/C setting on your way out the door?
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Energy modeling software provides insight into whether letting your A/C relax while you’re gone all day will save you energy – and money.
Prisons in more than a dozen U.S. states are not fully air-conditioned.
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A survey conducted in Texas state prisons finds that many lack basic resources like cold water, ice and air conditioning to help incarcerated people and staff keep cool during heat waves.
The way heat and humidity affect people depends on factors like the weather that’s typical where they are.
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After the announcement of President Biden’s heat initiative, The Conversation revisits stories on high summer temperatures and human health.