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Climate change is having detrimental effects on children's health as an increasing number of infants are born preterm, presenting to hospital, and experiencing respiratory disease, putting society's most vulnerable at greater risk of death.New research by an Australian team of scientists reviewing 163 health studies from across the world reveals an extremely troubling picture of how childhood health measures have already worsened as a result of climate change, which shows no sign of abating anytime soon.An estimated 600…

Left: global annual mean carbon dioxide (black curve) and air temperature (red curve) since 1850. Right: Average temperatures over central England in summer (red curve) and winter (curve). Temperatures relative to 1850–1900 average. Credit: Neven Fuckar / Data: Met Office HadCRUT5 and HadCET Earlier this year, the UK's weather and climate service, the Met Office, announced average global temperatures in 2023 were 1.46°C above…

Our body temperature may be inextricably tied to our mental health, research out this week suggests. A team of scientists has found evidence that higher body temp is associated with having clinical depression. While there are many unresolved questions about this link, the researchers have already begun to conduct human trials to confirm and further understand the phenomenon.Alex Winter on Innovative Horror Movies The research was led by scientists from the University of California San Francisco. Some studies in the past…

A cold snap recently gripped the U.S., plunging many states into temperatures far below what is typical for an average winter. In Nashville, Tenn., readings plummeted to minus one degree Fahrenheit (–18 degrees Celsius), while Oregon declared a state of emergency as a severe ice storm caused lows in the teens and an uptick in weather-related deaths. In famously balmy Florida, thermometers dipped as low as 20 degrees F (–6.7 degrees C)—chilly enough to see cold-stunned iguanas falling from the trees and residents…

According to automotive business intelligence firm Jato Dynamics, the ADAS penetration in the luxury segment grew from 43% in 2021, to 53% during Jan-Nov 2023. (Photo Credit: ZF)Currently, it’s ‘A for ADAS’ in the passenger vehicle industry. ADAS would qualify to be the hottest technology trend of 2023, and is likely to be so in 2024 too. “Such a technology trend can take quantum jumps. ADAS will become more mainstream in the coming year,” says Gaurav Gupta, Deputy MD, MG…

Seeing how much hotter certain neighborhoods can get compared to others nearby blows my mind, and I report on this kind of thing for a living. I live in New York City, which tops a new list of places in the US where temperature spikes because of urban sprawl. It’s a problem called the urban heat island effect. Basically, areas with more paved surfaces and less greenery trap heat. That raises temperatures in cities compared to more rural locations. It also makes certain neighborhoods within a city hotter than others. A new…

University of Arizona scientist Ellie Broadman holds a sediment core from the bottom of a lake on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula. Credit: Emily Stone As scorching heat grips large swaths of the Earth, a lot of people are trying to put the extreme temperatures into context and asking: When was it ever this hot before? Globally, 2023 has…

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Study watershed in the New Mexico-Texas portion of the Rio Grande Basin. Credit: Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101307 Climate model projections indicate that New Mexico's future will be warmer and drier, with diminished water supply from the Rio Grande, presenting extreme challenges for policy makers and agricultural stakeholders. A new study titled "Adapting irrigated agriculture in…

An object orbiting a star 1,400 light-years away is seriously confronting our notions of what's possible in the Universe.It's a brown dwarf, the curious category of objects that straddle the gap between planets and stars, but it's on such a close orbit with its very hot host star that its temperature exceeds a blistering 8,000 Kelvin (7,727 degrees Celsius, or 13,940 Fahrenheit) – hot enough to snap apart the molecules in its atmosphere into their composite atoms.That's far hotter than the surface temperature of the Sun,…