Cities are generally warmer than their adjacent rural land, a phenomenon known as the urban heat island (UHI). Often accompanying the UHI effect is another phenomenon called the urban dry island (UDI), whereby the humidity of urban land is lower than tha
Global climate projections show that humid heat extremes will expand toward the higher latitudes, making the midlatitudes hotspots for these extremes. Therefore, a thorough explanation of their regional characteristics becomes crucial, given that the changes in these extremes can potentially render a larg...
Humid-heat waves with these conditions were never exceeded in the present climate, but are expected to occur every other year at 4° global warming. This calls for respective adaptation measures in some key regions of the world along with international climate change mitigation efforts. 展开 ...
“Exposure to excess heat and humidity can lead to deadly heat stroke and kidney disease from chronic dehydration, among other health issues, for incarcerated people in the United States,” explained study lead authorCascade Tuholske, an assistant professor of human-environment geography at Mont...
This warmth has had devastating consequences over the past year and a half in the form of heat waves, flooding, drought, and more. Humidity is also expected to rise as climate change continues because warmer air can hold more water. Warmer, more humid air leads to extremely high heat ...
Climate changeEnvironmental Sciences(GeneralPollutionBackground Galicia, in northwest Spain, experiences warm summers and winters. However, the higher relative humidity that prevails the whole year through and the location of the summer hot points are related to real weather heat stroke in the hottest ...
Here, we quantify humid heat wave hazard in the recent past and at different levels of global warming. We find that the magnitude and apparent temperature peak of heat waves, such as the ones observed in Chicago in 1995 and China in 2003, have been strongly amplified by humidity. Climate ...
While discussing the effects of population and urbanization changes on exposure to extremes, we use the population data for the year 2000 and the urbanization rate data for 2001 to isolate the climate change effects, respectively. 2.2. Definition of extreme humid-heat and calculation of exposure ...
Climate and environmental changes threaten human mental health, but the impacts of specific environmental conditions on neuropsychiatric disorders remain largely unclear. Here, we show the impact of a humid heat environment on the brain and the gut microbiota using a conditioned housing male mouse model...
Under conditions designed to better mirror real-world conditions, a new study finds that adults 65 and older are affected more by heat wave–like temperatures than previously reported. The study, "Age alters the thermoregulatory ... Sep 26, 2023 0 0 Addiction Elevated temperatures and climate...