Showing posts with label heat waves. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heat waves. Show all posts
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Extreme heat waves broiling the US in 2024 aren’t normal: How climate change is heating up weather around the world

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  Less than a month into summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has already experienced an extreme heat wave. Millions of peo...
Monday, July 15, 2024

Extreme heat waves aren’t ‘just summer’: How climate change is heating up the weather, and what we can do about it

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  The heat wave that left more than 100 million people sweating across the eastern U.S. in June 2024 hit so fast and was so extreme that for...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Heat waves + air pollution can be a deadly combination: The health risk together is worse than either alone

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  On the morning news, you see the weather forecast is for high heat, and there is an “excessive heat watch” for later in the week. You wer...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Intense heat waves and flooding are battering electricity and water systems, as America’s aging infrastructure sags under the pressure of climate change

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  The 1960s and 1970s were a golden age of infrastructure development in the U.S., with the expansion of the interstate system and widespre...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

If you thought this summer’s heat waves were bad, a new study has some disturbing news

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  As global temperatures rise, people in the tropics, including places like India and Africa’s Sahel region, will likely face dangerously ho...
Monday, July 18, 2022

How hot is too hot for the human body? Our lab found heat + humidity gets dangerous faster than many people realize

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  Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes – lasting longer, becoming more frequent, and getting just plain hotter. One ...