Hot days are getting hotter in north-west Europe – and the region is poorly equipped to cope.
Articles on Extreme heat
Displaying 121 - 140 of 172 articles
Spring 2022’s record heat put most Indians at greater risk of a premature death.
El Niño can trigger intense and widespread periods of extreme ocean warming known as marine heat waves. They can devastate marine life.
Scientists analyzed 100,000 baseball games, from the days of Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays to Aaron Judge. Here’s what they learned about the climate’s growing role.
Extreme heat kills more Australians than any other natural hazard. Here’s why it’s important to keep an eye on older family and friends this summer.
Changing habitat ranges, competition for food and water, and biological effects of climate change all pose threats to wildlife.
Marginalised or minority groups seem to suffer the most from heat-related deaths and disease.
Air conditioners are rare in some European countries, but the climate crisis could change that.
That’s the big question at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial.
Urban plantings are part of the solution to living in warmer cities, but most tree and shrub species in the world’s cities will struggle too. The impacts on liveability could be huge.
Climate change will increase the frequency of both floods and droughts in Pakistan. To address these challenges, enhancing infrastructure, building dams and educating the public are necessary.
The flooding in Pakistan is the latest in a sequence of exceptional disasters in the Northern Hemisphere. How much is climate change to blame?
The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change. Wildfire smoke adds to the risk.
The tropics are projected to face almost daily dangerous heat by 2100. And “extremely dangerous” heat that’s almost unheard of today will occur more often in several regions.
Flash flooding often follows periods of drought.
A small number of people experience a debilitating level of eco-anxiety that limits their ability to live happy and healthy lives.
Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.
Hotter, drier summers risk making widlfires more like those of southern Europe.
The UK recorded blistering hot temperatures as the US and Europe also experienced sweltering heat waves.
Summer heat may be far from people’s minds here in Australia. But Europe’s ordeal is yet another sign changes in Earth’s climate have already reached dangerous levels.
Top contributors
-
ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Climate Science, ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne
-
Research Fellow, The ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, Australian National University
-
Postdoctoral Researcher, Climate Science, University of Oxford
-
Director - Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, University of Canberra
-
Professor of Economics, University of Arizona
-
NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW
-
Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
-
Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University
-
Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
-
Professor of Geology and Environmental Geosciences, University of Dayton
-
Professor of Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
-
Associate, Institute for Climate Change & Adaptation, University of Nairobi
-
Professor, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Professor of Ecology and Associate Director, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University