M Romanello, C Di Napoli, C Green, H Kennard… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international research collaboration that independently monitors the evolving impacts of climate change on health, and the emerging …
J Ballester, M Quijal-Zamorano… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect …
In the past two decades, record-breaking heatwaves have caused an increasing number of heat-related deaths, including heatstroke, globally. Heatstroke is a heat illness characterized …
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 …
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 …
C Sorensen, J Hess - New England Journal of Medicine, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Key Clinical Points Treatment and Prevention of Heat-Related Illness Climate change is causing increasingly frequent and severe heat waves, resulting in increases in the incidence …
Plastic pollution and climate change have commonly been treated as two separate issues and sometimes are even seen as competing. Here we present an alternative view that these …
Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Existing studies on the association between temperatures and cardiovascular deaths have been …
Increased extreme heat is among the clearest impacts of global warming, but the economic effects of heat waves are poorly understood. Using subnational economic data, extreme …