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ACW News Page Testing
December 15, 2023
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
Global Heat Impacts and Solutions Survey
October 17, 2023
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Arsht-Rock launches new Heat Action Platform
September 28, 2023
Hot off the press: Canadian researchers dissect media coverage of 2021 Western Heat Dome
September 27, 2023
GHHIN
Heat governance scholar Ladd Keith’s collaboration with NOAA
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
Science Special Issue: Heat and Health
September 1, 2023
Google adds health tips to extreme heat advisories
August 30, 2023
Vacancy: Website Content Management Assistant, WMO-WHO Joint Office for Climate and Health
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
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
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
Copernicus
WMO issues Technical Brief on Health and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
July 19, 2023
Heatwaves highlight importance of health early warnings and action plans
July 18, 2023
Latest Chilling Prospects data highlight need for action to support the most vulnerable with sustainable cooling solutions
SEforAll
Statement – Without preparation the heat can be deadly
WHO Regional Director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge
Experts discuss scaling-up of Heat Early Warning Systems
July 4, 2023
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
WMO steps up action on climate and health
March 3, 2023
New WMO Guidance on Measuring, Modelling and Monitoring the Canopy Layer Urban Heat Island
March 1, 2023
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
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
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
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
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
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
Helping cities adapt to higher temperatures
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
Extreme Heat Makes It Hard for Kids to Be Active. But Exercise Is Crucial In a Warming World
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
Natalie Grover Horizon Magazine
Two Heart Medications Tied to Greater Heart Attack Risk During Very Hot Weather
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
Lobelia
Series: Work at 45°C in India
SELCO Foundation
US launches Heat.gov with tools for communities facing extreme heat
July 26, 2022
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
Lancet
Activation of EAP for Heatwaves in southern Kyrgyzstan: 2,100 households to be protected from extreme heat
Anticipation Hub
Climate change at work
Grist / NRDC
WMO-WHO Joint Press Conference on Heatwave in Europe
United Nations
Heat-related deaths top 1,100 in Spain, Portugal amid heat wave and wildfires
ABC News
Heat Action Day Raises Awareness of Heat Risk Across the Globe
July 1, 2022
New Heat and Health Research Incubator
University of Sydney
Strengthening Preparedness for Extreme Heat in India
WHO Health and Climate Change Urban Profiles
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
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
New US Climate and Health Outlook
New Heat Action Platform
Connecting research teams for Wellcome Trust proposals on biological vulnerability to extreme heat in maternal and child health
May 26, 2022
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
Heat wave in India leaves millions struggling to cope
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
Global heat health network announces new Management Committee and Work Plan
March 31, 2022
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
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
Job Vacancy: GHHIN Technical Support Unit Manager
2022 Message from GHHIN: The year ahead for heat action and health
January 31, 2022
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
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
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
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
France: Evolving heat waves characteristics challenge heat warning systems and prevention plans
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
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
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
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
NOAA and communities to map heat inequities in 11 states
April 14, 2021
GHHIN steering committee members make Reuters top climate scientist list
April 1, 2021
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
Friederike Otto, Luke Harrington Carbon Brief
Better African heatwave data could save lives, shield economies, report says
Kim Harrisberg Reuters
Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors’ income, health
July 9, 2020
Heat Health Masterclass Series
July 1, 2020
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
Extreme Heat and COVID-19 Info Series
May 26, 2020
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
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
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
Commit to ambitious climate action, including building resilience for heat health
September 10, 2019
Heat Health Advisory and Readiness Actions for Chile
August 30, 2019
Call to Action from the Global Heat Health Information Network
July 18, 2019
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
