Texas has been at the center of a national debate over how to green the grid without jeopardizing reliability. The region has been battered in recent years by extreme weather events as the state's power sector has undergone large changes, with coal generation falling rapidly and renewable pr...
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Spatiotemporal analysis of heat and heat wave effects on elderly mortality in Texas, 2006-2011. Sci Total Environ. 2016;562:845-51.L.-C. Chien, Y. Guo, and K. Zhang. Spatiotemporal analysis of heat and heat wave effects on elderly mortality in Texas, 2006-2011. Science of the Total...
It is important to understand effective measures to prepare for, predict, and manage heat waves. Human Health Effects The human body maintains an internal temperature within a very narrow range. A normal body temperature is 98.6°F (37°C), but can fluctuate in a healthy person by about 1...
This paper aims to explore the effects of droughts, heat waves, and hydrometeorological uncertainty more broadly on human exposure to power plant emissions, focusing on California as a case study. Using an open source, stochastic power system simulation tool (the CAPOW model) in conjunction with ...
In Canada, a province-wide state of emergency was declared in the eastern province of Nova Scotia on Saturday in response to severe flooding. This photo taken on June 27, 2023 shows a thermometer at a residential backyard in Plano, Texas, the United States. (Photo by Dan Tian/Xinhua) In...
The researchers first applied their AI technology to analyze the 2023 Texas heat wave, which led to a record number of heat-related deaths in the state. They found that this historic heat wave was 1.18 °C to 1.42 °C (2.12 °F to 2.56 °F) hotter than it would have been without the...
The health effects from extreme heat will soon take an even bigger toll on disadvantaged communities, according to a new report. As global temperatures continue to climb, a growing number of people living in disadvantaged communities will be impacted by health-threatening ...
As a deadly, record-breaking heatwave puts Texas's grid to the test, renewable power sources are helping the state maintain energy reliability, Reuters reported. Even amid three-digit temperatures, the state has still managed to avoid rolling blackouts in June. Energy analysts contributed to the ...
Another study conducted by Hu and Brunsel [7] in Houston, Texas, employed MODIS LST products to examine the impact of temporal aggregation on land surface temperature (LST) and surface urban heat islands from 2000 to 2010. The results indicated that SUHII values were higher during the daytime...