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Geohealth
January 2025
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland.
Heatwaves pose a range of severe impacts on human health, including an increase in premature mortality. The summers of 2018 and 2022 are two examples with record-breaking temperatures leading to thousands of heat-related excess deaths in Europe. Some of the extreme temperatures experienced during these summers were predictable several weeks in advance by subseasonal forecasts.
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December 2024
Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Agriculture, Food, and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Climate change is leading to more frequent and severe extreme temperature events, negatively impacting agricultural productivity and threatening global food security. Plant reproduction, the process fundamental to crop yield, is highly susceptible to heatwaves, which disrupt pollen development and ultimately affect seed-set and crop yields. Recent research has increasingly focused on understanding how pollen grains from various crops react to heat stress at the molecular and cellular levels.
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December 2024
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Sections Integrative Ecophysiology and Deep-Sea Ecology & Technology, Am Handelshafen 12, 27515 Bremerhaven, Germany.
Increasing frequencies of heatwaves threaten marine ectotherm species but not all alike. In exposed habitats, some species rely on a higher capacity for passive tolerance at higher temperatures, thereby extending time-dependent survival limits. Here we assess how the involvement of the cardiovascular system in extended tolerance at the margins of the thermal performance curve is dependent on warming rate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Public Health
December 2024
Rui Nabeiro Biodiversity Chair, MED - Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development & CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Universidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais, Évora, 7004-516, Portugal.
Background: The increased severity of extreme weather and anticipated climate change has intensified heat stress-related mortality worldwide. This study examines the historical short-term effects of heat on mortality in Alentejo, Portugal's warmest region, and projects it up to the end of the century.
Methods: Using data from 1980 to 2015 during warm seasons (May-September), the association between daily mortality by all-causes and mean temperature was examined following a case time series design, applied at both regional and subregional scales.
Mar Pollut Bull
December 2024
Faculty of Geomatics, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou, People's Republic of China.
Marine heatwave (MHW) can increase heat exchange between the land and the ocean, which may further develop into a consecutive marine and terrestrial heatwave (CMTHW). Despite their significance, the feedback mechanisms underlying these compound events remain inadequately understood. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between terrestrial and marine heatwaves across China's coastal regions, leveraging multiple temperature datasets.
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