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25 de abr. de 2023 · Heat waves have a wide-ranging negative impact. They reduce air quality, worsen drought, increase the risk of wildfires and can lead infrastructure to buckle. They also take a heavy toll on...
4 de ago. de 2022 · Although heatwaves have been getting worse in the past few years, studies of the most extreme examples leapt forward after a June 2021 heatwave in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.
30 de mar. de 2024 · Since 1979, global heat waves are moving 20% more slowly — meaning more people stay hot longer — and they are happening 67% more often, according to a study in Friday’s Science Advances. The study found the highest temperatures in the heat waves are warmer than 40 years ago and the area under a heat dome is larger.
Our planet is warming. Here’s what’s at stake if we don’t act now. © Hannah Mode / WWF-US. Our climate is changing around us faster than predicted. From more frequent and extreme storms to unprecedented heatwaves, we’re feeling the impacts of human-caused global warming. But we still have time to change course.
23 de ago. de 2021 · Heat waves are periods of unusually hot weather, typically lasting for 2 or more days, outside the historical averages for a given area. Heat waves have happened in the past, but climate change is making heat waves longer, more extreme, and more frequent. We know this by observing how often new daily high and low temperature records are set.
6 de sept. de 2022 · Extreme high temperatures can be linked to at least 17 causes of death, most of them related to heart and breathing issues but also including suicide, drowning and homicide. Studies have shown ...
26 de jul. de 2023 · How heat waves form, and how climate change makes them worse. Heat domes, heat islands, mega-droughts, and climate change: The anatomy of worsening heat waves. By Umair Irfan Updated Jul...
