Heat Stress

Discover how rising temperatures and longer heatwaves put people, wildlife, and cities under stress.

This tag focuses on the dangers of extreme heat and what it means for daily life.

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Asia
Cambodia
Laos
Malaysia
Philippines
Thailand
Vietnam
Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam (heatwave)
Across Southeast Asia, heatwaves are occurring more frequently and intensely, and longer. In April through May 2016, several regions...
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Arctic
The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979
NEWS JUST IN! The Arctic IS warming faster than we thought. In fact FOUR times as fast as the...
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Asia
Russia
RECORD HOT DAY IN SIBERIA
Heat Wave: 29 July was another record hot day in Siberia. The village of Segen Kyuel at lat 64N...
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Arctic
SVALBARD CUMULATED MELT RUNOFF TWICE AS LARGE AS PREVIOUS RECORDS
A temperature anomaly of +5°C (averaged from 1 June) in Svalbard, explains this record melt. Cumulated from the beginning...
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Asia
India, Pakistan (heatwave)
The India-Pakistan heatwave between March and June 2022, which affected 70% of India by the end of April and...
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North America & Caribbean
United States
Unprecedented Blazes Envelop Alaska
Numerous large-scale wildfires have been burning in Alaska since the beginning of June. Some of these fires have been...
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Canada
North America & Caribbean
Heat records broken in the Canadian Arctic
Inuvik, NWT exceeded 30°C three days in a row for the first time on record. Another week, another parade...
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Arctic
Unprecedented 32.5C in the Arctic Circle
Norway’s Meteorological Institute has warned the high temperatures are a clear signal of climate change. Average temperatures in Banak...
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Europe
Germany
Germany (drought)
Deaths in June 2022 were 8% above normal, largely attributed to heat-related cardiac events (Destatis, 2022a). By mid-July, this...
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Arctic
Extraordinary global heating in the Arctic
Rapid warming and sea-ice loss in the Barents and Kara Seas area are an unmistakable consequence of increasing greenhouse...
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Africa
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania (deglaciation)
Currently, there are three glaciated mountains in Africa (WMO, 2021). These include Mount Kenya, the Rwenzori Mountains and Mount...

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