Exposure to excessive heat can have wide-ranging impacts on anyone, from the direct effects of heat on the body to the worsening of existing conditions. "Rapid rises in heat gain due to exposure to hotter than average conditions compromises the body's ability to regulate temperature and can re...
A recent study conducted by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) examines how excessive heat impacts work injuries. That study,The Impact of Excessive Heat on The Frequency of Work-Related Injuries (study)(Negrusa, S., Fomenko, O, and Thumu...
At Arizona State University, there's a team welcoming summer's surging temperatures. Researchers are using a sweating test dummy calledANDIto study how heat impacts the human body. "We wanted to understand how these realistic conditions impact the human body," said professor Konrad Rykaczewski...
These negative impacts may lead to increased hospital visits and admissions related to mental illness. Kendall Brown pushes coolers filled with water to sell near the Lincoln Memorial during a heat wave on July 15, 2024 in Washington, DC.Nathan Howard/Getty Images A2022 st...
Increasing average temperatures and heat waves are having devasting impacts on human health and well-being but studies of heat impacts and how people adapt
Heat stroke (HS) is a fatal disease caused by thermal damage in the body, and it has a very high mortality rate. In 2015, the People’s Liberation Army Professional Committee of Critical Care Medicine published the first expert consensus on HS in China,
Children should be protected from the escalating impacts of heatwaves, UNICEF said, in a call for "urgent and dramatic emissions mitigation measures to contain global heating -- and protect lives." Children in northern regions will face the most dramatic increases in high heatwave severity, while...
They claimed that coolant blowing ratio, porous matrix thermal conductivity, and porous media structure have influential impacts on heat transfer mechanisms of supersonic transpiration cooling, addressing the need for more experimental studies in this regard. As the thermal management of modern devices ...
(2017) confirms an increase in both the mean maximum air temperature in the summer and the frequency of the occurrence of relatively warm days during the period between 1973–2010 [4]. The consequential impacts on the indoor environment consists of interactions between the outdoor climate in ...
The (negative) impacts of elevated temperatures (i.e., 35 and 38 掳C) on adult survival and reproduction were more pronounced for P. quatuordecimpunctata than for H. variegata. Similarly, high temperatures exhibited the strongest negative impacts on the prey consumption rates of P. quatuordecim...