Environmental health

Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events

Extreme heat threatens human life, evidenced by textgreater260,000 heat-related fatalities collectively in the deadliest events since 2000. In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat mortality risk, including crossings of …

A physiological approach for assessing human survivability and liveability to heat in a changing climate

Most studies projecting human survivability limits to extreme heat with climate change use a 35 °C wet-bulb temperature (Tw) threshold without integrating variations in human physiology. This study applies physiological and biophysical principles for …