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Small Island Developing States 2024 Lancet Countdown Report

December 9, 2024

Lancet Countdown

OSHA Extends Public Comment Deadline for Heat Exposure Rule

December 3, 2024

Occupational Health & Safety (OHS)

Registration and Financial Assistance for the 1st GHHIN Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum

December 2, 2024

Southeast Asia Heat Health Hub

New PATH Initiative to Integrate Global Climate and Health Data

December 2, 2024

Digital Square

The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

November 29, 2024

World Resources Institute

South-west France swelters in ‘staggering’ 26.9C November night heat

November 28, 2024

The Guardian

Webinar: Contribute to the development of new Lancet Countdown Europe indicators

November 25, 2024

Lancet Countdown

Governor Newsom just signed a new law granting massive power to California farmworkers — here’s what’s changing

November 21, 2024

The Cool Down

COP 29: IFRC will target dangerous heat in 100 cities with global resilience programme

November 20, 2024

IFRC

Challenging future projected for children in 2050 in world transformed by extreme climate crises, population shifts, and tech disparities

November 19, 2024

UNICEF

Urban areas are getting hotter. A startup from one of the world’s hottest cities wants to help

November 15, 2024

CNN

State of Climate Services report showcased at COP29

November 13, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Early Warnings for All advances but new challenges emerge

November 13, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Vacancy: WMO Associate Programme Officer – Health

November 12, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Publication: People in a Changing Climate: From Vulnerability to Action – Insights from World Bank Group Country Climate and Development Reports covering 72 economies

November 12, 2024

World Bank Group

11th NUS-Cambridge Joint Symposium on Climate and Heat Health: Confronting Global Challenges Amidst Escalating Temperatures

November 8, 2024

Southeast Asia Heat Health Hub

This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit

November 7, 2024

BBC

2024 State of Climate Services

November 7, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Over 2 billion in cities will be exposed to 0.5ºC rise by 2040

November 5, 2024

United Nations

MSF and the Lancet Countdown joint brief 2024

November 4, 2024

Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF)

2024 Winner of the John C Harsanyi Medal for Innovation

November 4, 2024

The University of Sydney

New policy from health organization addresses concerning stressor on human health: ‘Must take immediate and decisive action’

November 2, 2024

The Cool Down

Ministers from G20 countries discuss Extreme Heat in the world at the final meeting of the Disaster Risk Reduction WG

November 1, 2024

G20

G20 Health approves ministerial declaration in support of global health and international cooperation

November 1, 2024

G20 Brasil 2024

Applications now open nationwide for community-led heat-monitoring campaigns

November 1, 2024

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Heat and Health at COP29

October 31, 2024

ClimaHealth

Health at COP29 Overview Page

October 31, 2024

World Health Organization (WHO)

Southeast Asia Heat Health Hub

October 31, 2024

(GHHIN)

The final document of the G20 Finance and Health ministerial meeting highlights fighting inequalities and preparing for future pandemics

October 31, 2024

G20 Brasil 2024

The 2024 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown

October 30, 2024

Lancet Countdown

UK exposed to dangerous extreme heat as climate change health threats reach record-breaking levels

October 30, 2024

ITVX

More than half a trillion hours of work lost in 2023 due to ‘heat exposure’

October 30, 2024

Carbon Brief

How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

October 29, 2024

KFF Health News

Global Warming Responsible For Majority Of Heat-Related Deaths In Europe: Study

October 29, 2024

1st GHHIN Southeast Asia Heat Health Forum Announced

October 28, 2024

Southeast Asia Heat Health Hub

Climate crisis, cities, and health

October 26, 2024

Prof Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen

World on track to get 1.8 degrees warmer without climate action, UN warns

October 24, 2024

ITVX

Record-Breaking Temperatures Mask a Subtler Threat: Chronic Heat

October 22, 2024

BNN Bloomberg

In the Deadly Heat, Iraq’s Hospitals Have Become the Ground-Zero Battlefield in the Country’s Climate Crisis

October 21, 2024

Pulitzer Center

Greater investment in climate services for health needed for escalating challenges

October 18, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

New U of A Initiative Leads the Way to Combat Extreme Heat

October 17, 2024

Arizona Institute for Resilience

Wellcome announces US$25mn for climate and health as part of US$50mn commitment to World Health Organisation

October 14, 2024

Wellcome

The climate of the future- can we handle the heat?

October 14, 2024

The University of Sydney

Hot and bothered: Can S’pore’s outdoor workers beat the rising heat?

October 7, 2024

The Straits Times

Chennai Air Show tragedy: Dehydration, suffocation and heatstroke – what led to death of 5 spectators?

October 7, 2024

Mint

Too Hot For Beach Visit? Dubai’s Floodlit Beaches Are A Hit At Night

October 6, 2024

NDTV

Project to manage heat in homes puts power in hands of users

October 4, 2024

Griffith University

Feeling the Extreme Heat

October 4, 2024

Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health

Older persons and Heat Risk: Taking Action to Save Lives

October 1, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

Cities Are on the Front Line of the ‘Climate-Health Crisis.’ A New Report Provides a Framework for Tackling Its Effects

September 26, 2024

TIME

NYU Langone Health Forms New Partnership to Minimize Deaths from Extreme Heat Amid Rising Global Temperatures

September 26, 2024

NYU Langone Health

Fall is here, but experts say communities need a heat plan

September 24, 2024

NBC Los Angeles

Shanshan study spotlights science linking warming to extreme weather

September 23, 2024

The Japan Times

Climate and health data must be integrated

September 17, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Extreme Heat Means More Wildfires. It’s Taking a Toll on Firefighters.

September 17, 2024

The New York Times

Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC

September 16, 2024

The Japan Times

Readout of First-Ever White House Summit on Extreme Heat

September 14, 2024

The White House

Heat wave in Southern California and the Southwest in early September 2024

September 13, 2024

NOAA

Hot off the press: Canadian researchers dissect media coverage of 2021 Western Heat Dome

September 12, 2024

GHHIN

Are Southeast Asians Better at Dealing with Heatwaves?

September 11, 2024

BFM

As Phoenix works to deal with record heat, this expert sees other cities using similar approaches

September 9, 2024

KJZZ

School districts race to invest in cooling solutions as classrooms and playgrounds heat up

September 9, 2024

The Washington Post

Surviving a Future of Extreme Heat

September 9, 2024

Kristie L. Ebi

Is extreme heat an extreme disaster?

September 9, 2024

WBUR

An unlikely line of defense during heat waves: Food bank

September 6, 2024

Grist

Cooler Rooms Might be the Solution to the Heat and Worker Health Crisis

September 6, 2024

Triple Pundit

Q&A: Heat, Health and Transportation

September 5, 2024

Maddie West, Global Heat Health Information Network

Japan’s record heat in July ‘almost impossible’ without climate change

September 4, 2024

Japan Times

Towards a weather-ready and climate resilient ASEAN

September 4, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Google unveils new heat resilience tool for cities

September 4, 2024

Axios

A world-first study challenges our understanding of how humans cope with extreme heat

September 2, 2024

ABC

Clocking off: Japan’s hotter summers put limit on outdoor work

September 1, 2024

Japan Times

OSHA’s Heat Rulemaking Now Open for Public Comment

September 1, 2024

Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Alarm as Australia records ‘gobsmacking’ hot August temperatures

August 31, 2024

The Guardian

Santé et chaleur, la sueur froide

August 28, 2024

Radio France

Call for event proposals at the COP29 Health Pavilion

August 27, 2024

World Health Organization (WHO)

Extreme Temperature Collection 2024

August 26, 2024

Environmental Health Perspectives

Extreme heat linked to diabetes in pregnant women, thyroid disorders: Study

August 26, 2024

The Straits Times

A toilet cleaner died after toiling in 45 deg C. He’s among India’s poor, vulnerable to the heat

August 26, 2024

The Straits Times

New Report Sets a Course for Efficient, Climate-Friendly Cooling for All

August 22, 2024

Clean Coolong Collaborative

Wet-bulb temperature: What is it, and how is it linked to human survival in extreme heat?

August 20, 2024

Live Science

How Japan’s health care system is gearing up for more heatstroke cases

August 20, 2024

Japan Times

‘The place I love is in flames’: the people living and working in extreme heat

August 16, 2024

The Guardian

Heat inequality ‘causing thousands of unreported deaths in poor countries’

August 16, 2024

The Guardian

Heat exposure can affect hormones

August 16, 2024

NUS Medicine

NOAA issue National Heat Strategy, provide $200K for extreme heat preparedness

August 14, 2024

NOAA

Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year

August 14, 2024

The Guardian

New guidance for visualising extreme heat

August 14, 2024

Climate Visual

Cool off like an Olympian: Here’s how athletes cope with intense heat

August 14, 2024

Short Wave Podcast

Operating the Perfect Cooling Center Is Harder Than It Looks

August 14, 2024

Bloomberg

July sets new temperature records

August 13, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Almost half a billion children live in areas experiencing at least twice as many extremely hot days as their grandparents – UNICEF

August 13, 2024

UNICEF

Your medications might make it harder for you to beat the heat

August 13, 2024

Science News

Here are 5 ways that climate change is affecting sports around the world

August 12, 2024

Wrold Economic Forum

Heat Caused Over 47,000 Deaths in Europe in 2023, the Second Highest Burden of the Last Decade

August 12, 2024

Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal)

Aging Californians face extreme heat challenges

August 6, 2024

Public Health Watch

Indonesia Sets Path for Climate-Friendly Cooling with National Cooling Action Plan

August 6, 2024

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

Global Heat Health Information Network announces 2024 Management Committee

August 5, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

As U.S. heat deaths rise, some landlords oppose right to air conditioning

August 5, 2024

Reuters

France’s deadly 2003 heatwave left a mark on the nation: Now their heatwave planning is world-class

August 4, 2024

Euro News

Heat training can help athletes — and the rest of us — adapt to hotter weather

August 4, 2024

NPR

Global Heat Health Experts Gather in Singapore

July 31, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

Extreme Heat in India: A Crisis on the Rise

July 30, 2024

UC San Diego

Climate change hits India’s artisans with a double whammy: Extreme heat makes pollution even more dangerous

July 30, 2024

Yale Climate Connections

Heat is testing the limits of human survivability. Here’s how it kills

July 29, 2024

CNN

GHHIN supports UN Secretary-General’s call to urgent action on extreme heat

July 26, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

Training Workshop Advances Heat Preparedness in Uttar Pradesh, India

July 26, 2024

NRDC

ILO Report: More workers than ever are losing the fight against heat stress

July 25, 2024

International Labour Organization (ILO)

UNICEF Report: Confronting the effects of climate change on child health and well-being

July 25, 2024

UNICEF

UN Secretary-General issues Call to Action on Extreme Heat

July 25, 2024

United Nations

How can the world reduce deaths from extreme heat?

July 22, 2024

Our World in Data

Extreme heat may be crucial factor in human spread of bird flu

July 19, 2024

The Guardian

As Temperatures Climb, Workers Need Robust Protections to Stay Safe From Extreme Heat

July 16, 2024

A Better Balance

Urban Heat Hot Spots in 65 Cities

July 9, 2024

Climate Central

SoCal’s severe heat wave sets record temps; dangerous conditions will stick around By

July 8, 2024

LAist

Record temperature streak continues in June

July 8, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Heat Warnings issued for many areas of B.C.

July 7, 2024

Government of British Columbia

‘Potentially historic’ heatwave threatens more than 130 million people across US

July 6, 2024

The Guardian

Soldiers use this fast, cheap solution to quickly cool down in the scorching heat. And you can, too.

July 3, 2024

CBS News

Public Reddit conversation on heat preparedness kicks off with r/heat_prep

July 2, 2024

Reddit

2024 Northern Hemisphere Heat Season: Act Now to Save Lives

June 28, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

More extreme heat demands coordinated action

June 28, 2024

World Health Organization (WHO)

Heat is killing thousands, and big events have not adjusted

June 26, 2024

The Straits Times

Scientists worried by future warmer nights want to help workers, residents in S’pore sleep better

June 25, 2024

The Straits Times

In photos: How delivery riders are coping with India’s extreme heat wave

June 25, 2024

Rest of The world

Deadly heat in Mexico and US made 35 times more likely by global heating

June 20, 2024

The Guardian

Extreme heat killing more than 100 people in Mexico hotter and much more likely due to climate change

June 20, 2024

World Weather Attribution

Deadly heatwaves in Central America – 35 times more likely because of climate change and four times more likely than in 2000

June 20, 2024

IFRC

Grant Funds are available to add more trees and shade in Phoenix

June 19, 2024

Office of heat Response & Mitigation Phoenix

Free air con? US cities look at new ways to prevent heat deaths

June 19, 2024

BBC

Inside India’s first heat stroke emergency room

June 19, 2024

BBC

Record-breaking US heat wave scorches the Midwest and Northeast, bringing safety measures

June 18, 2024

The Associated Press

Baby, it’s Hot Outside. New Toolkit to Help Reduce Heat-Related Health Problems

June 18, 2024

North Carolina State Climate Office

Fema petitioned to make extreme heat and wildfire smoke major disasters

June 18, 2024

The Guardian

Forecast: Very hot. What your employer should be doing to protect you on high-heat days

June 18, 2024

CNN

Why isn’t extreme heat considered a disaster in the U.S.?

June 18, 2024

NPR

Read A Book. Escape The Heat. LA Launching Cooling Center Pilot Program At Libraries

June 17, 2024

LAist

How Sweltering Heat Disrupts Learning and What Schools Can Do

June 17, 2024

Education Week

Stressed out: how to measure dangerous heat

June 14, 2024

France 24

The Hellenic Red Cross acts ahead of extreme heat in Greece

June 11, 2024

Anticipation Hub

Explore the indicators of the Lancet Countdown in Europe 2024

June 10, 2024

IDAlert

Amid Record-Breaking Heat Wave, Researchers Step Up Warnings About Risks Extreme Temperatures Pose to Children

June 10, 2024

Inside Climate News

Why Is Nobody Investing in Climate Adaptation?

June 10, 2024

Heatmap

Historic heat is roasting Puerto Rico, where it feels like 125 degrees

June 7, 2024

The Washington Post

A heat dome can bring dangerously high temperatures. What is it?

June 6, 2024

NPR

How to Properly Cool Your Home With a Fan

June 5, 2024

Time

Tucson adopts Worker Heat Protection Ordinance, Heat Action Roadmap

June 4, 2024

City of Tucson

The Center for Heat Resilient Communities gets a NOAA Grant

June 3, 2024

America Adapts

US Launches Nationwide Heat and Health Tool to Protect Communities Most Impacted by Extreme Heat

May 31, 2024

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

India may have recorded its hottest temperatures ever as Delhi faces extreme heatwave

May 31, 2024

Independent

Heat Action Day: Raising the alarm about extreme heat through art

May 31, 2024

IFRC

Heat waves increase the number of risky, premature births

May 30, 2024

Vox

Climate change and the escalation of global extreme heat

May 28, 2024

Climate Central

Too Hot To Work

May 28, 2024

Asian Scientist

Climate change caused 26 extra days of extreme heat globally

May 28, 2024

India Today

Schools that never needed AC are now overheating. Fixes will cost billions.

May 24, 2024

The Washington Post

Study Analyses the Impact of Summer Heat on Hospital Admissions in Spain

May 22, 2024

IS Global

Seven lessons for journalism in the age of extreme heat

May 21, 2024

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

NIHHIS Centers of Excellence Announced

May 20, 2024

NIHHIS

Summer 2023 Was Hottest Summer in the Northern Hemisphere in 2,000 Years, Study Finds

May 15, 2024

EcoWatch

Searing temperatures sweep across Asia, causing distress for millions

May 15, 2024

IFRC Climate Center

Do Hot Summer Temperatures Weaken the Immune System?

May 15, 2024

Scientific American

Climate change made the deadly heatwaves that hit millions of highly vulnerable people across Asia more frequent and extreme

May 14, 2024

World Weather Attribution

April Heat Waves from Gaza to the Philippines Were Made Worse by Climate Change

May 14, 2024

Scientific American

The 2024 Europe Report of the Lancet Countdown warns urgent action is needed to protect health from climate change

May 13, 2024

ISGlobal Barcelona Institute for Global Health

India: New guidelines to identify, categorize heat-related deaths

May 11, 2024

Healthworld

School’s out: how climate change threatens education

May 9, 2024

Phys.org

State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean 2023

May 8, 2024

World Metereological Organization (WMO)

From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere

May 7, 2024

The Associated Press

The fast development of DestinE’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin

May 6, 2024

ECMWF

New guidelines launched to protect children and pregnant women from heat stress in Bangladesh

May 5, 2024

UNICEF

The world’s garment workers are on the front lines of climate impacts

May 2, 2024

Grist

Call for public comment and author nominations: Sixth National Climate Assessment (NCA6)

May 2, 2024

U.S Global Change Research Program

WMO Heat Health Internship Opportunity

April 30, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network

Mali heatwave: Ice becomes a hot commodity as temperatures soar

April 27, 2024

BBC

Widespread parts of Asia and Africa reel under extreme weather

April 26, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Jodhpur, India launches “first-of-its-kind Net Zero Cooling Station for the Informal Sector”

April 26, 2024

Mahila Housing Trust

New survey finds cost of living and climate crises putting Australians’ health at risk as temperatures rise

April 25, 2024

Sweltering Cities

IBISA launches a new parametric Heat Index Product in India to protect women workers from heat-induced wage losses

April 24, 2024

International Cooperative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF)

Let’s Commit to Saving Workers from Heat, Not Killing Them

April 24, 2024

the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

This Earth Day we consider the impact of climate change on human health

April 22, 2024

World Economic Forum

Billions of Workers Exposed to Health Hazards Due to Climate Change

April 22, 2024

Voice of America

Health-harming heat stress rising in Europe, scientists say

April 22, 2024

Reuters

‘Discomfort May Increase’: Asia’s Heat Wave Scorches Hundreds of Millions

April 22, 2024

The New York Times

Earth month giving campaign supports health-centered climate solutions

April 22, 2024

Yale Center on Climate Change and Health

Europe experiences widespread flooding and severe heatwaves in 2023

April 22, 2024

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

More frequent and extreme weather events pose increasing risks to employee health and business performance

April 22, 2024

Health Action Alliance

Deadly Heat Wave in Recent Weeks Would Not Have Been Possible without Climate Change

April 18, 2024

Scientific American

‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need

April 17, 2024

The Guardian

Federal agencies, communities to map heat inequities in 14 U.S. cities

April 16, 2024

NOAA

The Heat Is On During India’s 2024 General Elections

April 15, 2024

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Two Sides of the Equator: Extreme Heat in the Southern Hemisphere

April 10, 2024

Clean Cooling Collaborative

Can Buildings Save Us From Extreme Heatwaves?

April 10, 2024

Earthrise

Reforestation revolution would save lives across U.S. cities

April 7, 2024

The Nature Conservancy

Global call for plans that consider the health impacts of extreme heat

April 4, 2024

GHHIN

Llamado global para presentar planes que consideran los impactos del calor extremo en la salud

April 4, 2024

GHHIN

Schools close and crops wither as ‘historic’ heatwave hits south-east Asia

April 4, 2024

The Guardian

USAID and IFRC Hold Global Summit on Extreme Heat, Launch Global Action Sprint

March 28, 2024

USAID

Extreme heat affects men’s fertility and birth outcomes: NUS study

March 27, 2024

The Straits Times

Extreme heat is the silent assassin of climate change

March 27, 2024

Aljazeera

Lab experiment: What extreme heat does to your body

March 27, 2024

The Straits Times

Blog: Reflections on a Century of Extreme Heat Event-Related Mortality Reporting in Canada

March 26, 2024

Liv Yoon, Melissa Gorman, Gregory Richardson

Hazardous heat widespread in U.S. jails and prisons; worsened by climate change

March 26, 2024

Robbie M. Parks

‘Urgent and sustainable’ action needed to safeguard health: MJA-Lancet Countdown

March 25, 2024

The University of Sydney

Extreme heat at work can double stillbirth risk, India study finds

March 22, 2024

BBC

Further 1 deg C warming endangers 800m outdoor workers: Study

March 20, 2024

The Straits Times

Heat stress causes lower fertility, productivity and reduced cognitive capacity

March 19, 2024

National University of Singapore

Policy Watch: Countries slow to wake up to the mounting deaths from heat stress

March 18, 2024

Reuters

Workshop Accelerates Heat Preparedness Action in India

March 14, 2024

Natural Resources Defense Council

As heat becomes a national threat, who will be protected?

March 13, 2024

Grist

Olympic athletes could face a tough opponent: Brutal Paris heat

March 10, 2024

NBC News

Hobart endures hottest night in 112 years as severe heatwave hits south-eastern Australia

March 10, 2024

The Guardian

Florida passes ‘cruel’ bill curbing water and shade protections for workers

March 8, 2024

The Guardian

How is the UK responding to heatwave risk?

March 7, 2024

Grantham Research Institute

Argentina melts in late-summer heat wave as records tumble

March 3, 2024

Reuters

India Seasonal Outlook

March 1, 2024

Goverment of India

Shaping a Heat Resilient City​ – Singapore

March 1, 2024

Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority

Arizona announces Extreme Heat Preparedness Plan

March 1, 2024

Arizona Office of the Governor

WHO launches Repository of interventions in environment, climate change and health

February 29, 2024

World Health Organization (WHO)

Climate Pulse, C3S’s new monitoring tool

February 28, 2024

Copernicus

Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas (C3S)

February 20, 2024

Copernicus

Empowering health professionals as leaders in climate action

February 14, 2024

Health Care Without Harm

Por El Niño costero: Perú ha sufrido 32 olas de calor diurnas y 27 nocturnas

February 14, 2024

Forbes

B.C. report says climate change brings health risk, as doctor fears ’colossal harms’

February 13, 2024

Vancouver Sun

¿Cómo enfriar a Montevideo para enfrentar las olas de calor? / How to cool Montevideo during heat waves?

February 11, 2024

El Pais

La nueva estrategia para enfrentar las olas de calor: una medida ante las altas temperaturas (España) / The new strategy to address heat waves in Spain

February 9, 2024

Mundiario

¿Se dará descanso médico a personas afectadas por golpes de calor en Lima? / Will there be medical leave for heat stroke in Lima?

February 8, 2024

La República

Temperatura en Tumbes llega a los 44º C y los niños son afectados por golpe de calor / Temperature in Tumbes reaches 44º C and is affecting children

February 8, 2024

Infobae

Excessive Heat in Australia: Understanding Causes and Impacts

February 7, 2024

Weatherzone

Multiple city hubs, dispersed parks found to keep metro areas cooler

February 7, 2024

Cornell University

Heat Islands in Buenos Aires / Islas de calor – Estas son las esquinas porteñas donde la temperatura es un infierno

February 6, 2024

La Nación

Mumbai’s spendings will be double of New York’s to manage urban heat generated due to concretisation

February 6, 2024

The Times of India

Combatting Urban Heat: The Impact of Irrigation on Temperature and Humidity in Beijing

February 5, 2024

Environmental Health

Wildfires cause huge loss of life in Chile amid heatwaves in South America

February 5, 2024

World Metereological Organization (WMO)

Converging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest

February 2, 2024

Inside Climate News

How mapping ‘heat islands’ can help cities prepare for extreme heat

February 1, 2024

NPR

Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate

January 30, 2024

Grist

GHHIN welcomes Alejandro Saez Reale as new Technical Support Unit Coordinator

January 30, 2024

Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)

Cooling Shelters in Buenos Aires / Red de Refugios Climáticos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

January 30, 2024

Agencia de Protección Ambiental

Sydney’s first pop-up cooling hub draws a crowd as the mercury soars

January 26, 2024

The Sydney Morning Herald

Extreme heat can be risky during pregnancy. How to look after yourself and your baby

January 24, 2024

The Conversation

Water recycling could be key to cooling Sydney’s west

January 23, 2024

The Lighthouse, Macquarie University

New report assesses which of London’s properties and neighbourhoods are most vulnerable to heat in the wake of the hottest year ever recorded

January 22, 2024

ARUP

One billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring

January 22, 2024

The Conversation

New series of educational videos on climate change and health from the ENBEL project

January 21, 2024

ENBEL project

Global food production at risk as rising temperatures threaten farmers’ physical ability to work – new study

January 19, 2024

Loughborough University

By the end of the century climate change may have claimed over 2 million lives in European cities, but policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions could save most of them

January 17, 2024

Centering Health in a Just Transition – Paving Way for Health-based Climate Actions in Global Climate Negotiations

January 17, 2024

PLOS Global Public Health

5 breakthroughs on climate and health at COP28 – and what comes next

January 15, 2024

ClimaHealth

WMO confirms that 2023 smashes global temperature record

January 12, 2024

World Metereological Organization (WMO)

India Takes Action to Address Mounting Heat Risks in Cities

January 12, 2024

NRDC

The need for green and sustainable healthcare amid climate challenges

January 11, 2024

Open Access Government

2024 Resolution for OSHA: Propose A Workplace Heat Standard

January 8, 2024

NRDC

Digital evidence synthesis tools (DEST) for climate and health: survey

January 7, 2024

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

It’s High Time to Protect Farmworkers From Heat-Related Illness and Death

January 7, 2024

Climate Checkup

How the Dire Health Implications of Climate Change Are Unfolding Globally

January 6, 2024

Inside Climate News

Dying in the Fields as Temperatures Soar

December 31, 2023

Inside Climate News

Living in Heat that Kills

December 18, 2023

Earth Data-NASA

India World Cup underscores climate impact on cricket

December 18, 2023

The Third Pole

These are the ways rural Canadians are more vulnerable to climate change

December 16, 2023

CBC

HeatWatch app to be trialled over summer as temperatures soar

December 14, 2023

The University of Sydney

Expecting in Extreme Heat: The climate risk to pregnancy

December 13, 2023

BBC Earth

Universal Health Coverage Day 2023

December 12, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO)

Sharing the health benefits of climate solutions can boost public support for change

December 12, 2023

George Mason University

Sydney maps microclimates to combat urban heat

December 12, 2023

Smart Cities World

Hottest Survivable Temperatures Are Lower Than Expected

December 12, 2023

Scientific American

Australia’s silent killer

December 12, 2023

ABC Health & Wellbeing

How newborns suffer due to effects of climate change

December 11, 2023

Nation

Who’s vulnerable to extreme heat and how can we protect them?

December 6, 2023

High Horizons

Heat, Health and GHHIN featured in Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda

December 6, 2023

GHHIN

Protecting workers in Nicaragua – new film showcasing toll of heat stress on workers and world-leading protections developed in Nicaragua.

December 4, 2023

CICERO klima

Hear from Associate Professor of Practice in Planetary Health at Monash, Angie Bone, on her hopes for COP28 here:

December 4, 2023

Monash University

The Climate and Us – New BBC film series features heat

December 4, 2023

The Global Climate & Health Alliance

Heat and air pollution – a joint threat for health

December 4, 2023

Exhaustion

41 funders, partners endorse new guiding principles for financing climate and health solutions to protect health

December 2, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO)

GCF, UNDP and WHO join forces to ramp up climate health support for developing countries

December 2, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO)

NUS launches SE Asia Node of the Global Heat Health Information Network

December 1, 2023

New perspective on limits of survival and liveability in extreme heat

December 1, 2023

Heat and Health Research Incubator at The University of Sydney.

Climate solutions are already in our nature

November 30, 2023

Monash University

Heatwaves and The City

November 30, 2023

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

The Future of Extreme Heat in Cities: What We Know — and What We Don’t

November 29, 2023

The CityFix

Some states act to protect residents from extreme heat — with a new focus on young people

November 27, 2023

Stateline

At risk: 10 ways the changing climate is creating a health emergency

November 16, 2023

The Guardian

Record heat disproportionately hurts communities of color. Unprecedented climate justice federal funding could help

November 16, 2023

Yale Climate Connections

National Medicines Symposium 2023

November 15, 2023

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Urban Heat Island Map

November 15, 2023

Climate Central

Calling all healthcare professionals! Healthcare Climate Stories at COP28

November 13, 2023

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

Climate Bulletins

November 8, 2023

Copernicus

NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP-CMIP6)

November 3, 2023

NASA Center for Climate Simulation

Climate change is bad for health but climate services save lives

November 2, 2023

WMO

Launch of the 5th call for short films by the Health for All Film Festival!

November 1, 2023

WHO

‘Silent killer’: more than half of heatwave deaths are in disadvantaged areas – now Australian councils are fighting back

October 29, 2023

The Guardian

Cornell Prof. Mitigates Extreme Urban Heat Island Effect With Trees

October 25, 2023

The Cornell Daily Sun

Author Q&A: The association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State

October 24, 2023

Maddie West, Robbie Parks

Hope amid the heat: Volunteers like Fatema Khatun help neighbors through sweltering heatwaves in Bangladesh

October 18, 2023

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Global Heat Impacts and Solutions Survey

October 17, 2023

Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

How we’re using AI to combat floods, wildfires and extreme heat

October 10, 2023

Yossi Matias

Heat stress and the European heatwave of 2023

October 3, 2023

Claudia Di Napoli

Arsht-Rock launches new Heat Action Platform

September 28, 2023

Extreme Heat In Central And South America

September 28, 2023

Roop Singh

Heat governance scholar Ladd Keith’s collaboration with NOAA

September 27, 2023

JOHN DOS PASSOS COGGIN, MELISSA DEFRANCESCO, GILLEN CURREN, AND AMBER LIGGETT

New global dataset shines a light on humidity extremes

September 25, 2023

UK Met Office

ENBEL Policy Brief: Protecting the vulnerable from heatwaves: a gap in policy

September 20, 2023

Dr. Andreas Flouris named to 2023 Time100 Next

September 14, 2023

How can we protect pregnant women from rising temperatures?

September 7, 2023

Dr Gloria Maimela Wellcome

Modeling extreme heat in a changing climate

September 5, 2023

Oriana Chegwidden Jeremy Freeman

Science Special Issue: Heat and Health

September 1, 2023

Google adds health tips to extreme heat advisories

August 30, 2023

GHHIN

Vacancy: Website Content Management Assistant, WMO-WHO Joint Office for Climate and Health

August 30, 2023

WMO-WHO Joint Office for Climate and Health

WMO: Extreme weather is the “new norm”

August 22, 2023

WMO

New web app shows heat-attributable mortality in Spain

August 17, 2023

WMO publishes global update of climate datasets

August 15, 2023

WMO

Medications for chronic diseases affect the body’s ability to regulate body temperature, keep cool

August 15, 2023

Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Six Hot Opportunity Areas To Beat The Heat Through Federal Policy

August 13, 2023

Heatwaves: Develop ‘Urban Heat Maps’ to Protect the Vulnerable says WHO

August 10, 2023

Health Policy Watch

US Launches National Dashboard to Track Heat-Related Illness

August 9, 2023

US HHS

North American and European heatwaves virtually impossible without climate change – study

July 25, 2023

Red Cross Climate Centre

Singapore National heat stress advisory launched as world hots up

July 25, 2023

The Straits Times

Expert Q&A: Why can heat death counts differ so much for the same location?

July 20, 2023

Global Heat Health Information Network

The European heatwave of July 2023 in a longer-term context

July 20, 2023

Copernicus

WMO issues Technical Brief on Health and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

July 19, 2023

WMO

Heatwaves highlight importance of health early warnings and action plans

July 18, 2023

WMO

Latest Chilling Prospects data highlight need for action to support the most vulnerable with sustainable cooling solutions

July 18, 2023

SEforAll

Statement – Without preparation the heat can be deadly

July 18, 2023

WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge

Experts discuss scaling-up of Heat Early Warning Systems

July 4, 2023

Global Heat Health Information Network

The Power of Fans: Study finds simple way to slash AC costs without compromising comfort

June 20, 2023

Maddie West GHHIN

Solutions at Scale: Advancing Action on India’s Heat Risks

June 6, 2023

Vijay Limaye, Prima Madan, Abhiyant Tiwari, Ashish Jindal

Wellcome Trust Awards £17.5M for Heat Adaptation Research

June 1, 2023

Wellcome Trust

Watch: Extreme Heat Research Webinars

May 31, 2023

Global Disaster Preparedness Center

Creating Cool and Resilient Communities: Integrating Plans for Urban Heat Mitigation

May 30, 2023

Maddie West, Ladd Keith GHHIN

Extreme humid heat in South Asia in April 2023, largely driven by climate change, detrimental to vulnerable and disadvantaged communities

May 17, 2023

World Weather Attribution

Google brings heat health warning and tips to search

March 29, 2023

Google

Global Heat Health experts gather to advance life-saving knowledge and action

March 7, 2023

GHHIN

WMO steps up action on climate and health

March 3, 2023

WMO

New WMO Guidance on Measuring, Modelling and Monitoring the Canopy Layer Urban Heat Island

March 1, 2023

WMO

Blog: India’s Leadership Advances Heat-Health Protections

February 19, 2023

Vijay Limaye, Abhiyant Tiwari, Ritika Kapoor NRDC

Covering an infant stroller in hot weather? Here’s what you need to know.

February 13, 2023

James Smallcombe, Ollie Jay University of Sydney

Q&A: GHHIN’s new Extreme Heat Programme Officer position explained

February 6, 2023

GHHIN, WMO

First-of-its-kind extreme heat microinsurance launched in India to protect women workers

February 6, 2023

Arsht-Rock

Blog: What will a shift to El Niño mean for heat planners?

February 3, 2023

John Nairn, WMO Extreme Heat Advisor

Climate change made record breaking early season heat in Argentina and Paraguay about 60 times more likely

December 21, 2022

world weather attribution

Pilot project builds equitable response to extreme heat in four cities

December 14, 2022

NOAA

WMO urges caution in naming heatwaves

December 13, 2022

WMO

Hazard Planners Aren’t Planning for Heat Hazards in Parts of United States

December 7, 2022

Juanita Constible NRDC

Over 20,000 died in western Europe’s summer heatwaves, figures show

November 24, 2022

Sandra Laville The Guardian

Advancing Global Heat Resilience & Climate-Friendly Cooling

November 14, 2022

Vijay Limaye and Prima Madan NRDC

First Global Ambassador for Heat Action named at COP27

November 10, 2022

Arsht-Rockefeller

Ahmedabad, India’s Heat Action Plan, the first in South Asia, saving lives

November 10, 2022

Exemplars in Global Health

The global need for smart heat–health warning systems

October 29, 2022

Tiantian Li, Chen Chen, Wenjia Cai The Lancet

2022 Lancet Countdown on Climate Change and Health Released

October 26, 2022

The Lancet

New Report from UNICEF – Protecting Children from the Escalating Impacts of Heatwaves

October 24, 2022

UNICEF

The Impact of Heat Waves and Heat Action Plans in South Asia

October 18, 2022

Rohit Magotra URBANET

Heatwaves account for some of the deadliest disasters and are intensifying: warn OCHA, IFRC

October 10, 2022

OCHA

New project to support decision-making to protect people from indoor heat health risks

September 26, 2022

GHHIN

WHO Consultancy: Scoping Issues and Evidence on the Health Risks of Indoor Heat

September 22, 2022

GHHIN, WHO

How India’s lattice buildings cool without air con

September 20, 2022

Feza Tabassum Azmi BBC

California Lessons for Federal & State Workplace Heat Rules

September 14, 2022

Juanita Constible NRDC

Air conditioning has a climate problem. New technology could help

September 10, 2022

Cool Coalition

New research projects explore impacts of heatwaves in low and middle-income countries

September 7, 2022

Global Disaster Preparedness Center, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN

Climate change: More studies needed on possibility of human extinction

September 1, 2022

BBC News

New podcast series ‘Rethinking Heat in the City’

August 31, 2022

Cool Infrastructures Karachi Urban Lab

China heatwave: Sichuan residents flee heatwaves and power cuts underground

August 25, 2022

Melissa Zhu BBC News

Extreme weather in China highlights climate change impacts and need for early warnings

August 24, 2022

WMO

Helping cities adapt to higher temperatures

August 24, 2022

European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Climate change will cause more African children to die from hot weather

August 23, 2022

The Conversation Cathryn Birch, John Marsham, Sarah Chapman, University of Leeds

New tool for health checks during extreme heat events

August 21, 2022

National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

US Inflation Reduction Act supports more equitable access to indoor cooling

August 17, 2022

NRDC Juanita Constible, Joe Vukovich

Cool Roofs Can Help Offset Rising Energy Demand in India

August 8, 2022

NRDC Vijay Limaye, Prima Madan, Kim Knowlton

New checklist guides non-experts through health checks during extreme heat events

August 5, 2022

National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health

Extreme Heat Makes It Hard for Kids to Be Active. But Exercise Is Crucial In a Warming World

August 5, 2022

Tara Law Time

“Heatwaves create difficulties for breastfeeding” – Tajikistan steps up for babies’ health

August 1, 2022

WHO Europe

Why more heatwaves endanger our health and ability to work

August 1, 2022

Natalie Grover Horizon Magazine

Two Heart Medications Tied to Greater Heart Attack Risk During Very Hot Weather

August 1, 2022

Yale School of Public Health

BBC Series Explores Life at 50°C

July 30, 2022

BBC

Opinion: Can Humanity Handle the Heat?

July 28, 2022

Project Syndicate

How changes in thermal stress will impact lives in the future

July 28, 2022

Lobelia

Series: Work at 45°C in India

July 28, 2022

SELCO Foundation

US launches Heat.gov with tools for communities facing extreme heat

July 26, 2022

NOAA

Living Through India’s Next-Level Heat Wave

July 25, 2022

The New Yorker

New Report: A milestone in UK climate history

July 22, 2022

UK heatwave piles further pressure on stretched NHS services

July 20, 2022

BMJ

WMO has no immediate plans to name heatwaves

July 19, 2022

UK heatwave: Extreme heat an increasing threat to health without rapid transition away from fossil fuels

July 19, 2022

Lancet

Activation of EAP for Heatwaves in southern Kyrgyzstan: 2,100 households to be protected from extreme heat

July 19, 2022

Anticipation Hub

Climate change at work

July 19, 2022

Grist / NRDC

WMO-WHO Joint Press Conference on Heatwave in Europe

July 19, 2022

United Nations

Heat-related deaths top 1,100 in Spain, Portugal amid heat wave and wildfires

July 19, 2022

ABC News

Heat Action Day Raises Awareness of Heat Risk Across the Globe

July 1, 2022

New Heat and Health Research Incubator

July 1, 2022

University of Sydney

Strengthening Preparedness for Extreme Heat in India

July 1, 2022

GHHIN

WHO Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles

July 1, 2022

What is a Heat Dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather phenomenon

June 22, 2022

The Conversation

New Map Tracks State Heat Protections for Workers

June 13, 2022

NRDC

Life at 50C: Qatar accused of under-reporting deaths in Gulf’s killer heat

June 9, 2022

BBC News

As Heat Kills in India, Action Plans Save Lives

June 3, 2022

Swagata Yadavar Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Red Cross / GHHIN Heat Research Awardees Announced

June 1, 2022

Global Disaster Preparedness Center

New US Climate and Health Outlook

June 1, 2022

New Heat Action Platform

June 1, 2022

Arsht-Rock

Connecting research teams for Wellcome Trust proposals on biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health

May 26, 2022

GHHIN

SAHHIN publishes compilation of heat impacts, mitigation and adaptation news

April 30, 2022

South Asia Health Health Information Network

India and Pakistan act to save lives from extreme heat

April 29, 2022

WMO

Heat wave in India leaves millions struggling to cope

April 29, 2022

Sharanya Hrishikesh BBC News, Delhi

HAP To Quantify Heat Stroke Victims

April 19, 2022

Brendan Dabhi Ahmedabad Mirror

GHHIN launches Heat Research Collaboration Connector for Wellcome Trust proposals

April 15, 2022

GHHIN

Global heat health network announces new Management Committee and Work Plan

March 31, 2022

GHHIN

WMO kicks off trial to develop integrated urban met services for coastal mega cities

March 25, 2022

Dan Symonds Meteorological Technology International

UN Unveils Ambitious Target for Early Warning Systems

March 23, 2022

WMO

NUS scientists to study construction workers’ risk of heat stress

March 13, 2022

Shabana Begum The Straits Times

10 Key Heat Health Messages from the IPCC AR6 Report

February 28, 2022

GHHIN

Job Vacancy: GHHIN Technical Support Unit Manager

February 28, 2022

GHHIN

2022 Message from GHHIN: The year ahead for heat action and health

January 31, 2022

GHHIN

America’s hottest city is nearly unlivable in summer. Can cooling technologies save it?

January 27, 2022

Nina Lakhani The Guardian

What drove Perth’s record-smashing heatwave – and why it’s a taste of things to come

January 24, 2022

Jatin Kala The Conversation

Africa’s First Heat Officer Faces a Daunting Task

January 21, 2022

Peter Yeung Bloomberg CityLab

Call for Proposals for Research Grants on Extreme Heat

January 15, 2022

GHHIN, Global Disaster Preparedness Center of the American Red Cross, Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Global heating linked to early birth and damage to babies’ health, scientists find

January 15, 2022

Damian Carrington The Guardian

Peer-reviewed Study Finds Extreme Heat Could Threaten $55.4 Billion Annually in Outdoor Worker Earnings by Midcentury

January 13, 2022

Ashley Siefert Nunes Union of Concerned Scientists

Legislation to strengthen FEMA’s approach to climate disasters

January 13, 2022

U.S. Congressman Earl Blumenauer

UArizona “cool pavement” program aims to beat Tucson’s extreme heat

December 15, 2021

Nicole Costantino News 4 Tuscon

Addressing Heat and Air Quality in Phoenix

December 6, 2021

The Nature Conservancy

Winter heatwave breaks records in four US states

December 3, 2021

Oliver Milman The Guardian

Extreme Heat May Affect Young and Middle-Aged Adults More Than Older Adults

November 24, 2021

Jillian McKoy BU School of Public Health

What has COP26 achieved for health?

November 21, 2021

WHO

Deadly Heat Is Baking Cities. Here’s How to Cool Them Down

November 18, 2021

Matt Simon Wired

How Scientists Know That Climate Change Juices Heat Waves

November 9, 2021

Eric Roston and Jackie Gu Bloomberg Green

UN issues new guidance to address warming in cities

November 3, 2021

UN

Too hot to handle: can our bodies withstand global heating?

October 20, 2021

Natalie Grover The Guardian

Seventy-Two Hours Under the Heat Dome

October 11, 2021

James Ross Gardner The New Yorker

How to protect yourself and your loved ones from extreme heat

October 7, 2021

Madalyn Amato Los Angeles Times

Comment: Deploy heat officers, policies and metrics

October 5, 2021

Ladd Keith , Sara Meerow , David M. Hondula , V. Kelly Turner & James C. Arnott Nature

Stories from People with Disabilities During Canada’s Extreme Heatwave

October 5, 2021

Paul Aufiero Human Rights Watch

Biden administration to write workplace safety rule tackling heat stress

September 20, 2021

Zack Colman Politico

Workplace Heat Protections Across the Globe

September 15, 2021

Teniope Adewumi-Gunn NRDC

Heat Expert to Lead City’s New Heat Response & Mitigation Office

September 14, 2021

Reviewing the summer of extreme weather in 2021

September 8, 2021

Chloe Brimicombe, Claudia Di Napoli, Hannah Cloke, Maureen Wanzala Carbon Brief

Summer Is Hot, but This Is Abnormal

July 26, 2021

Kathy Baughman McLeod The Atlantic

Biden administration, workers grapple with health threats posed by climate change and heat

July 19, 2021

Eli Rosenberg and Abha Bhattarai Washington Post

The ‘wet bulb’ warning

July 17, 2021

Ban Ki-moon and Patrick Verkooijen CNN

‘We’re not animals, we’re human beings’: US farm workers labor in deadly heat with few protections

July 16, 2021

Michael Sainato The Guardian

Embed from Getty Images

France: Evolving heat waves characteristics challenge heat warning systems and prevention plans

July 16, 2021

Santé publique France

Work Injuries Tied to Heat Are Vastly Undercounted, Study Finds

July 15, 2021

Christopher Flavelle The New York Times

Deadly heat: how rising temperatures threaten workers from Nicaragua to Nepal

July 14, 2021

Joe Parkin Daniels The Guardian

IFRC warns human-caused climate change made record-breaking heatwave 150 times more likely, putting lives at risk

July 8, 2021

IFRC

Extreme temperatures kill 5 million people a year with heat-related deaths rising, study finds

July 7, 2021

Donna Lu and Lisa Cox The Guardian

OPINION: Cities must plan for heat resilience now

July 5, 2021

Ladd Keith, Sara Meerow Thomson Reuters Foundation

Iraq’s power cuts show privilege of staying cool in a heatwave

July 5, 2021

Maya Gebeily Thomson Reuters Foundation

As the Climate Emergency Grows, Farmworkers Lack Protection from Deadly Heat

June 14, 2021

Greta Moran Civil Eats

UK Met Office to introduce new extreme heat warning

May 28, 2021

UK Met Office

New legislation in Qatar provides greater protection to workers from heat stress

May 27, 2021

ILO

Miami’s chief heat officer calls for action on ‘silent killer’ in climate crisis

May 27, 2021

The Guardian

COVID-19: How heat stress affected livelihood, health of Maharashtra’s rural communities

May 24, 2021

Dipak Zade, Premsagar Tasgaonkar, Christian Siderius

Solutions for Extreme Heat as India Battles Covid

May 18, 2021

Sameer Kwatra NRDC

Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports

May 16, 2021

Inside Climate News

Miami, Athens and Freetown to appoint world’s 1st Chief Heat Officers

May 5, 2021

Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center

A New, Deadly Risk for Cities in Summer: Power Failures During Heat Waves

May 3, 2021

New York Times

Whitest-ever paint could help cool heating Earth, study shows

April 15, 2021

Damian Carrington The Guardian

NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 11 states

April 14, 2021

NOAA

GHHIN steering committee members make Reuters top climate scientist list

April 1, 2021

GHHIN

Red Cross “Can’t Take the Heat” podcast back for season 2

March 14, 2021

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

“Climate Adaptive Heat Stress Management in South Asia” session at The Gobeshona 7th International Conference

January 23, 2021

GHHIN

Can SE Asian workers take the heat? Researchers tackle rising temperatures

January 13, 2021

Rina Chandran Thomson Reuters Foundation

Scientists say some official heatwave advice is based on old wives’ tales

January 9, 2021

Alison Branley ABC News AU

This Is How Singapore Keeps Its Cool as the City Heats Up

December 1, 2020

Faris Mokhtar Bloomberg CityLab

UK 2020 heatwave mortality monitoring shows highest-observed cumulative excess all-cause mortality

November 19, 2020

Public Health England

Healthcare workers get dizzy, headache, thirsty from heat while wearing PPE, S’pore-India study shows

November 5, 2020

Timothy Goh The Straits Times

Learn to Map the Urban Heat Island Effect with NASA ARSET

November 5, 2020

Jonathan O’Brien, Sean McCartney and Ana Prados

Feeling hot, hot, hot: Caribbean breaks heat records in 2020

November 1, 2020

Loop News

Mask Architects Design Cooling Stations for Abu Dhabi’s Urban Heat Island

October 28, 2020

Eric Baldwin ArchDaily

Open data on COVID-19 and Heat-Health published

October 26, 2020

Cool Infrastructures

US: Heat Emergency Plans Missing Pregnancy, Racial Justice

October 23, 2020

Human Rights Watch

Video: Homeless LA residents face heat, wildfires, and COVID-19

October 19, 2020

Pedro Armando Aparicio, David Zlutnick The Intercept

How heatwave insurance can help cities adapt to climate change

October 14, 2020

Laurie Goering Global Center on Adaptation / Thomson Reuters Foundation

ECMWF moves towards a policy of open data

October 7, 2020

ECMWF

As cities bake on a warming planet, insurers cook up heatwave cover

October 5, 2020

Laurie Goering Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Hotter Days Widen Racial Gap in U.S. Schools, Data Shows

October 5, 2020

Christopher Flavelle New York Times

Wildfires tear through drought-racked Paraguay amid record heat

October 2, 2020

William Costa The Guardian

Climate Crisis: Senate Moves to Protect Workers from Heat

October 1, 2020

Juanita Constible NRDC

Is extreme heat making India unlivable?

September 26, 2020

Bibek Bhattacharya Mint

‘Design as Preventative Care’ Can Mitigate Heat Island Effects

September 24, 2020

Amritha Manesh, Catherine Joseph Next City

August 2020: The warmest summer on record for the Northern Hemisphere comes to an end

September 15, 2020

Tom Di Liberto NOAA Climate.gov

Climate explained: will the tropics eventually become uninhabitable?

September 15, 2020

James Shulmeister The Conversation

Western Heat and Wildfires Rage On, with Millions at Risk

September 10, 2020

Vijay Limaye NRDC

A Climate Reckoning in Fire-Stricken California

September 10, 2020

New York Times

Heat kills. Why don’t we talk about it that way?

September 1, 2020

Kate Yoder Grist

Poor Neighborhoods Feel Brunt Of Rising Heat. Cities Are Mapping Them To Bring Relief

August 28, 2020

NPR

Hong Kong’s hot nights and even hotter days bring higher risk of mortality for women and the elderly, new study finds

August 24, 2020

Zoe Low South China Morning Post

Halfway to boiling: the city at 50C

August 13, 2020

Jonathan Watts, Elle Hunt The Guardian

Last decade was Earth’s hottest on record as climate crisis accelerates

August 12, 2020

Oliver Milman The Guardian

Here’s What Extreme Heat Looks Like: Profoundly Unequal

August 7, 2020

Somini Sengupta New York Times

Heatwave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives

August 4, 2020

Laurie Goering Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rising temperatures will cause more deaths than all infectious diseases – study

August 4, 2020

Oliver Milman The Guardian

Life and Death in Our Hot Future Will Be Shaped by Today’s Income Inequality

August 3, 2020

Eric Roston, Paul Murray and Rachael Dottle Bloomberg

As workers sweat, pressure grows on employers to turn down the heat

July 31, 2020

By Megan Rowling @meganrowling Thomson Reuters Foundation

Eat or stay cool? Cities test ways to protect the poor from rising heat

July 30, 2020

By Laurie Goering @lauriegoering Thomson Reuters Foundation

Heat Health Dialogues

July 28, 2020

GHHIN

Climate change causes health threats in Finland too

July 27, 2020

Ulla Kaltiala University of Eastern Finland

Climate change: Summers could become ‘too hot for humans’

July 16, 2020

David Shukman BBC

How to Find Relief During Summer Heat Waves in the City

July 13, 2020

Courtney Lindwall NRDC

Why Africa’s heatwaves are a forgotten impact of climate change

July 13, 2020

Friederike Otto, Luke Harrington Carbon Brief

Better African heatwave data could save lives, shield economies, report says

July 13, 2020

Kim Harrisberg Reuters

Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors’ income, health

July 9, 2020

Rina Chandran Thomson Reuters Foundation

Heat Health Masterclass Series

July 1, 2020

GHHIN

New scientific opinion on ‘Adaptation to climate change-related health effects’ recommends more support for resilience of the health sector

June 29, 2020

European Commission

New Podcast: Can’t Take the Heat

June 25, 2020

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre

Extreme Heat and COVID-19 Info Series

May 26, 2020

GHHIN

Umbrellas for social distancing: The Kerala way of fighting COVID-19

May 9, 2020

The New Indian Express

Summer heat waves could be deadlier because of COVID-19, health officials warn

May 6, 2020

Anna M. Phillips, Tony Barboza Chicago Tribune

13 Cities Launch Urban Heat Island Community Science Campaigns in 2020 with NOAA

April 22, 2020

Richard Aguilar Glupker NIHHIS

Extreme, high temperatures may double or triple heart-related deaths

March 30, 2020

American Heart Association

New model helps explain seasonal variations in urban heat islands

March 24, 2020

Duke University Science Daily

South Asia Heat Health Summit

February 17, 2020

GHHIN

Gambia’s labouring farmers show why premature births may boom in a warmer world

February 6, 2020

Nellie Peyton Thomson Reuters Foundation

Heatwaves in 2019 led to almost 900 extra deaths in England

January 7, 2020

Damian Carrington The Guardian

Heatwaves and Health in the Sahel

December 13, 2019

Wassila M. Thiaw

How to keep cool in a blackout during a heatwave

October 9, 2019

University of Sydney

Commit to ambitious climate action, 
including building resilience for heat health

September 10, 2019

GHHIN

Heat Health Advisory and Readiness Actions for Chile

August 30, 2019

GHHIN

Call to Action from the Global Heat Health Information Network

July 18, 2019

GHHIN

First Global Forum on Heat and Health held in Hong Kong, China

April 9, 2019

Joy Shumake-Guillemot, Lucas Scherdel, Chao Ren GHHIN

Beating the Heat: A Sustainable Cooling Handbook for Cities

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