Summer sports camps and pre-season training often have kids running hard in high heat and humidity. The combination can be deadly.
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The most important thing is to listen to your body in order to avoid heat illness.
High temperatures make baseball players and coaches more irritable, and are associated with an increase in violence.
New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower than previously believed.
Climate change has a clear link to rising foodborne illnesses. Blackouts during heat waves and wildfires are a growing part of the problem.
As crops fail in the rising heat, men are leaving many rural areas for migrant work in cities. Women are left to tend to the farming in increasingly dangerous conditions.
La Niña is only part of the problem. The long-term driver of increasing drought – even in areas getting more rainfall overall – is the rapidly warming climate.
Informal settlements in Dar es Salaam are highly vulnerable to the health effects of heat.
If fossil fuel burning stopped, emerging research suggests air temperatures could level off sooner than expected. But that doesn’t mean the damage stops.
UK law currently regards heat as a physical characteristic, rather than a useful resource.
The risk from heat waves is about more than intensity – being able to cool off is essential, and that’s hard to find in many low-income areas of the world.
While surface temperatures were about the 6th warmest on record in 2021, the upper oceans were at their hottest – and they’re a stronger indicator of global warming. A top climate scientist explains.
Volcanoes might seem like nature’s incinerators, but using them to burn up trash would be dangerous and disrespectful to indigenous people who view them as sacred.
Here are some practical tips to keep you comfortable while helping you stay safe.
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”.
Research shows how heat can have negative effects on emotional states, mental health conditions and aggressive behaviours.
Excessive heat puts your body at risk for organ damage. When workers don’t have a chance to cool off at home between shifts, that harm can accumulate.
America’s public schools, which are over 40 years old on average, are not equipped to handle rising temperatures due to climate change, a new study reveals.
With a massive territory to manage, all actions taken - to prevent, to detect and to fire fight - aren’t enough.
Not all forests respond to hotter and drier conditions in the same way.
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Exercise Physiology, Penn State
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Geographer-climatologist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Kinesiology, Penn State
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Professor of Physiology, Kinesiology and Human Performance, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Professor of Epidemiology and Data Science, Tufts University
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Associate Professor, Design Studies, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
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Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University, Monash University
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Professor, School of Physiology; Director, Brain Function Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
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Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
