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One in 4 American households are at risk of losing power because of the high cost of energy. Over 30% of those disconnections are in summer, when heat gets dangerous.
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.
A heatwave across northern Australia comes as a shock to the system. The impacts of heat are worst in early summer when we’ve had less time to acclimatise, so it’s important to heed health warnings.
Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong
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Associate Researcher, African Climate & Development Initiative and Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Behaviour & Social Change, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of exercise and work physiology, University of Montana
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Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
