Days and years of exposure to persistent heat can tax the heart and kidneys, disrupt sleep and challenge our mental health.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As Earth’s climate continues to change from heat-trapping gases spewed into the air, ever fewer people are out of reach from the billowing and deadly fingers of wildfire smoke, scientists say. Already wildfires are consuming three times more of the U.S. and Canada each year than in the 1980s and studies predict fire and smoke to worsen.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As heatwaves grip the U.S., placing millions under advisories, experts describe how to mitigate effects of heat stress.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
A brutal heat wave is expanding across Texas and the South this week, impacting millions of Americans with triple-digit temperatures and extreme humidity.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As the world warms, disasters collide. That’s happening right now, as health experts warn that exposure to wildfire smoke across North America increases the risks of catching COVID-19 and worsens the impacts for people who already have or are particularly susceptible to the virus.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Earth has pushed into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheating planet that’s losing its natural areas, but for the well-being of people living on it, according to a new study.
Kristie Ebi, co-author of the study and professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
New research warns that nearly 800,000 residents would need emergency medical care for heat stroke and other illnesses in an extended power failure. Other cities are also at risk.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
More severe and numerous floods, droughts, and heat waves impact a wide range of health outcomes, and shifting biomes may spread diseases to new places. How do scientists understand which portions of health effects are caused by climate change, and how can health organizations be prepared?
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Record-breaking April temperatures in Spain, Portugal and northern Africa were made 100 times more likely by human-caused climate change and would have been almost impossible in the past, according to a new study.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Climate change is making a safe, slow adjustment to heat much harder by upending what we’d typically expect as seasons change. Summers are getting longer and more intense, encroaching on winter and extending long into the fall. Large parts of Asia have been hit particularly hard the past two weeks. Axios reported how heat records have fallen throughout China, India, Bangladesh and Thailand, as areas have surpassed 100 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius).
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.