HEALTH-INDIA: THOUSANDS OF HEAT-WAVE DEATHS BLAMED ON NEGLECTRanjit Devraj
A man sleeps on his rickshaw on a street in New Delhi, India, amid a deadly heat wave, May 31, 2024.ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty The scorching heat has resulted in deaths of more than 50 people across India, most dying of suspected heat stroke and other heat-related symptoms. At least 29...
One of the direct and unavoidable consequences of global warming-induced rising temperatures is the more recurrent and severe heatwaves. In recent years, even countries like Malaysia seldom had some mild to severe heatwaves. As the Earth's average temper
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Anthropogenic warming has exacerbated atmospheric heatwaves globally, yet the transboundary migration of heatwaves between land and ocean, along with the anthropogenic influence on this process, remain unclear. Here, we employ a Lagrangian tracking appro
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temperature decline at night reduces its water vapour holding capacity and increases dew point temperature. The higher dew point can harm public health even with a lower temperature. Studies showed that most deaths during the European heatwave in 2003 were at night38,64. This emphasizes the assessm...
And in 2022, Spain experienced a record-breaking hot summer with 41 days of heat waves (AEMET, 2022). The unprecedented heat resulted in higher mortality than the heatwaves of 2003, causing 5316 deaths attributed to extreme heat and 6738 deaths attributed to moderate heat (Tobías et al., ...
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast following unexpectedly impactful events. Using extreme value statistics, here we show where re...
They result in increased heat stress to populations causing human health impacts and heat-related deaths. The urban environment can also exacerbate heat stress because of man-made materials and increased population density. Here we investigate the extreme heatwaves in the western U.S. during the ...