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CLIMATEWIRE | Women are disproportionately burdened physically and financially by extreme heat, and those impacts are expected to increase as climate change accelerates. A new report looks at heat impacts on women across India, Nigeria and the United States, and finds that high temperatures cost women in those countries $120 billion annually, due largely to missed work hours. When unpaid domestic labor is accounted for, the financial losses from heat borne by women rises to 260 percent compared to 76 percent for men,…

Try walking outside on a midsummer day in New York City. You’re sweating buckets. You can smell garbage rotting by the side of the road. The sunlight and heat seem to reflect from the steaming pavement, which is so hot to the touch it burns your skin.Arctic Blast to Send U.S. into Dangerous Deep Freeze, Imperiling Holiday TravelThat’s an example of the urban heat island effect – a well-known phenomenon in which cityscapes, particularly those without much in the way of trees or shade, tend to amplify and reflect heat,…

Australian nuclear experts have reviewed Oppenheimer and say it is epic, intense and compelling – but not always accurate.Its portrayal of the first atomic bomb detonation, for example, lacked the “violet hues” and heat wave of the real thing.“Some characters even made comments like, ‘quantum mechanics is hard’, which I disagree with – it’s only hard if someone hasn’t explained it properly,” said Dr Kirrily Rule, an instrument scientist who works with the thermal triple-axis spectrometer Taipan at the Australian Nuclear…

The high temperatures that have engulfed swaths of the U.S. in recent weeks are​ creating fresh challenges for airlines amid the hectic summer travel season. ​ The high temperatures that have engulfed swaths of the U.S. in recent weeks are​ creating fresh challenges for airlines amid the hectic summer travel season. ​ FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary…

Temperature records have been shattering left and right as searing, unrelenting heat has enveloped numerous spots around the planet—from Phoenix, Ariz., to Sanbao, China—during this summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Breaking high-temperature records is a hallmark of climate change. With more and more heat being trapped in the atmosphere by the greenhouses gases emitted when humans burn fossil fuels, heat records are now set increasingly more often than cold ones. Climate change leads to longer, stronger and more…

Accordingly, in Miami the heat index—a measurement that combines temperature and relative humidity—has been above 100 for over 40 days in a row, smashing the previous record of 32 days in 2020.Meanwhile in California, Gershunov’s research has confirmed that heat waves are getting stickier. “It's not just more frequent, more intense, and longer-lasting heat waves, like is the case all over the world with the warming climate,” says Gershunov. “Here, the heat waves are also changing flavor. They're becoming more expressed…

Urban green spaces can help mitigate extreme heat in cities by reducing temperatures and providing shade, says University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign urban and regional planning professor Fang Fang. Credit: Fang Fang Large parts of the country, particularly in the South, have been experiencing extreme heat waves recently, with the heat index well into triple digits. …

The National Weather Service said this week that dangerous heat waves would continue to stifle parts of the U.S.’s South and Southwest. Public-health officials have warned people in hot areas to take measures to prevent heat stress, which can lead to potentially serious and even deadly conditions such as heat stroke. Here’s what to know about the effects of extreme heat on the human body: What is extreme heat?…

The extreme heat blanketing the southern regions of the U.S., Mexico, and Europe this month would have been nearly impossible without the warming effects of human-induced climate change, according to a study released Tuesday by a group of European scientists who carry out rapid assessments of extreme weather events. The study by World Weather Attribution, a group of researchers based in London and the Netherlands, found that three separate heat waves in July across…

CLIMATEWIRE | Last Thursday morning, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby wanted to talk about the weather. And not in a good way. He told Wall Street analysts that a wave of thunderstorms had snarled traffic at East Coast airports the weekend before the July 4 holiday and that the ensuing cancellations would affect the company’s finances for the rest of the year. The same morning, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom was dealing with a similar issue. In his call with analysts, he detailed how the company was addressing the…