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The most important thing is to listen to your body in order to avoid heat illness.
New research on young, healthy humans found the body begins overheating when exposed to temperatures and humidity lower than previously believed.
Excessive heat puts your body at risk for organ damage. When workers don’t have a chance to cool off at home between shifts, that harm can accumulate.
It might be time to reschedule football season. With rising temperatures, poorer air quality and a worsening hurricane season, climate change threatens the future of the American sport.
Heat stroke is a danger in extreme temperatures, but a major risk factor for dying during a heat wave is cardiovascular disease and other pre-existing health conditions.
Left untreated, heat stroke can be fatal, and the elderly are the most at risk.
As the nation braces for a dangerous heat wave this weekend, a physician offers some tips for staying cool – and reminds us to watch out for older neighbors and friends.
You can stay fit during soaring summer temperatures — if you follow some simple precautions.
From heat stroke to asthma to lyme disease, climate change already poses a serious health risk.
Rising temperatures will not only hurt people in the future. Many are feeling the effects now. Those who work outdoors, those who have certain chronic conditions and the elderly are vulnerable.
Why you should never leave your dog in the car on a hot day.
Heatstroke is a medical emergency and often kills. But there are many processes in the body that occur between being exposed to heat and ending up in the ED – and warning signs to look out for too.
Climate change is making heat waves more frequent and intense around the world. Cities are hotter than surrounding areas, so urban dwellers – especially minorities and the poor – are at greatest risk.
Rising temperatures affect people living in the developing world differently to those living in Europe and North America.
Africa must find ways of dealing with extreme heatwaves or suffer a range of health problems, including fatalities.
The latest heatwaves in India have claimed at least 1,100 lives.
Most people are acutely aware of the toll the heat can take on human life. So it may come as a surprise that more Australians die from the cold than the heat.
Exercise alone can be hard, but exercising in the heat is a whole lot harder. Put simply, this is due to the balance between how much heat the body generates and how much it is capable of losing.
Sport is fundamental to Australia’s society, culture and economy. But how would we cope when the rising heat threatens some of our most beloved pastimes? A new report from the Climate Institute urges sports…
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Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University
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Geographer-climatologist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State
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Sports Physiologist, Western Sydney University
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Clinical Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Public Health, College of Charleston
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Professor of Physiology, Kinesiology and Human Performance, Penn State
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Associate Professor, Kinesiology, University of Windsor
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Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Arizona
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