"Record-Setting Heat Waves Are Baking The Arctic Region"
"Parts of the Arctic are enduring exceptionally high temperatures — up 30 to 40 degrees above normal — because of multiple intense heat domes."
Source: Washington Post, 08/16/2024
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California Cuts Safety Enforcement As Farmworkers Toil In Extreme Heat
"California has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has intensified in recent years — endangering farmworkers, construction workers and others who toil in scorching temperatures — an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main has found."
Source: LA Times, 08/16/2024
"Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths"
"Deaths from heat are notoriously difficult to quantify because of how complex and subjective the process is. It leaves officials with an incomplete picture of who heat kills."
Source: Inside Climate News, 08/15/2024
"The Climate Law’s $8.8B In Home Energy Rebates Are Starting To Roll Out"
"New York and Wisconsin are the first to launch their long-awaited Inflation Reduction Act programs meant to deploy everything from heat pumps to insulation."
Source: Canary Media, 08/15/2024
"Extreme Heat Poses New Challenge For Aid Agencies In Gaza"
"In Gaza, the sky is full of menace. As well as the missiles that rain down on schools and shelters, the brutal rays of the sun have made the summer unbearable for those struggling to survive in a ravaged landscape of ruins and rubble."
Source: Thomson Reuters Fdn., 08/14/2024
"Blue Crab Invasion Upends Italy’s Culinary Traditions And Ecology"
"The blue crabs crossed the Atlantic as stowaways, and with no natural predators they’re overtaking Italy’s marine ecosystem."
Source: Washington Post, 08/13/2024
"How Climate Change Could Make Pesticides Even Deadlier"
"As this year’s temperatures continue to break records, farmworkers who toil in the heat remain one of the groups most vulnerable to heat-related illnesses. But another element of their jobs is making extreme heat even more dangerous: pesticide drift."
Source: Mother Jones, 08/13/2024
Heat Contributed to 47,000 Deaths in Europe Last Year. Relief Programs Helped
"More than 47,000 Europeans died from heat-related causes during 2023, the world’s hottest year on record, a new report in Nature Medicine has found."
Source: NYTimes, 08/13/2024
‘It’s Torture’: Brutal Heat Broils Texas Prisons, Killing Dozens Of Inmates
"Legal action aims to force criminal justice department to air condition prisons, where 85,000 are at risk of heat illnesses"
Source: Guardian, 08/12/2024
"62.1 Million People In The U.S. May Be Exposed To Dangerous Heat Today"
"The [Washington] Post is tracking the potential for dangerous heat using the heat index, which accounts for the combined impact of temperature and humidity"
Source: Washington Post, 08/08/2024
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