Key Points Health Implications of Climate Change and Extreme Heat Heat waves are
increasing in frequency, duration, and intensity and are already a substantial threat to …

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 …

Cities are generally warmer than their adjacent rural land, a phenomenon known as the
urban heat island (UHI). Often accompanying the UHI effect is another phenomenon called …

Background: As atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise, temperature
and humidity will increase further, causing potentially dire increases in human heat stress …

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 …

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

Background Europe has emerged as a major climate change hotspot, both in terms of an
increase in seasonal averages and climate extremes. Projections of temperature-attributable …

Background Although many studies have reported the mortality effect of temperature, there
were few studies on the mortality risk of humidity, let alone the joint effect of temperature and …

Irrigation and urban greening can mitigate extreme temperatures and reduce adverse health
impacts from heat. However, some recent studies suggest these interventions could actually …

Global warming is leading to increased heat stress in many regions around the world. An
extensive number of heat stress indicators (HSIs) has been developed to measure the …