In many parts of the world heat waves are happening more often with greater intensity and for longer durations. By 2050, Earth’s mid-latitudes could be experiencing extreme heat between 90 and 180 days a year, with tropical regions enduring even more. S
C. How much higher the temperature records go. D. How many temperature records have been beaten.【小题2】What can we learn about the heat from Paragraph 2? E. It is a mild headache. F. It is an underrated problem. G. It causes apparent destruction. . It causes widespread concern.【...
Experts say heat waves often become dangerous when the nighttime temperature does not drop much past the highest daytime temperature. This puts great pressure on the human body. Extreme heat can be harmful to very young children—especially when they are left in a car. Every year, there are ...
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本文全文摘选自https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/heat-waves-climate-change-body-effects.html,适合改编为高考“阅读理解C篇”,仅供个人学习交流使用。 How Heat Waves Destroy the Human Body 热浪是如何摧毁我们身体的? BY ALEXAND...
Heat waves are different from the rising global average temperature. They are the peak, extreme, temperatures that happen for a finite duration of time. If the global average temperature warms by 4.4 C (the highest emission scenario projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC...
How To Stay Alive And Well When Heat Waves HitPresents recommendations for how to enjoy the hot weather while remaining healthy.Jet
Cities are on the front lines of this public health emergency. People living in urban areas are among the hardest hit when heatwaves happen, partly because ofurban heat islands. This is a phenomenon that occurs when cities replace the natural land cover with dense concentrations of surfaces th...
What makes heat waves so dangerous? Why do we underestimate their dangers, and what can we do about it? To learn more, State of the Planet spoke with Robbie Parks, an environmental epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Parks studies the connections betweenclima...
With heatwaves occurring more frequently, investigators from the European Insomnia Network recently explored how outdoor nighttime temperature changes affect body temperature and sleep quality. Their review of the literature, which is published in the Jo