Heatwaves constitute a major threat to human health and ecosystems. Projected increases
in heatwave frequency and severity thus lead to the need for prediction to enhance …

Climate change is the greatest existential challenge to planetary and human health and is
dictated by a shift in the Earth's weather and air conditions owing to anthropogenic activity …

Extreme event attribution aims to elucidate the link between global climate change, extreme
weather events, and the harms experienced on the ground by people, property, and nature …

In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic
efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to …

Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to
human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean …

Older adults are generally amongst the most vulnerable to heat and cold. While temperature-
related health impacts are projected to increase with global warming, the influence of …

Background Epidemiological literature on the health risks associated with non-optimal
temperature has mostly reported average estimates across large areas or specific …

Designing policy for climate change requires analyses which integrate the interrelationship
between the economy and environment, including: the immense risks and impacts on …

Epidemiological analyses of health risks associated with non-optimal temperature are
traditionally based on ground observations from weather stations that offer limited spatial …