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Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing
With 2024 as the hottest year on record and 2025 also a scorcher, the effects of extreme heat are felt by all of us but particularly those at higher risk, including pregnant women. Evidence on the consequences of extreme heat on maternal health and birth outcomes and the disproportionate burden of heat on communities of color and low-resourced ...
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With 2024 as the hottest year on record and 2025 also a scorcher, the effects of extreme heat are felt by all of us but particularly those at higher risk, including pregnant women. Evidence on the consequences of extreme heat on maternal health and birth outcomes and the disproportionate burden of heat on communities of color and low-resourced ...
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Climate Change and Extreme Heat Events
American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2008The association between climate change and the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events is now well established. General circulation models of climate change predict that heatwaves will become more frequent and intense, especially in the higher latitudes, affecting large metropolitan areas that are not well adapted to them.
George, Luber, Michael, McGeehin
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EXTREME HEAT IN THE EARLY ORDOVICIAN
PALAIOS, 2018Global cooling and the establishment of a moderate climate in the Middle Ordovician has been invoked as the primary driver of the tenfold increase in marine biodiversity that characterized the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE). Arguments suggesting that climate change played a significant role in biodiversification purport that the Early
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EFFECTS OF EXTREME HEAT ON MAN
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1950CHARACTERISTICS OF CONFLAGRATION HEAT Air raids in Germany killed about 800,000 persons, 1 a rough estimate accurate to not more than plus or minus 30 per cent. Reliable data on the distribution of different causes of death have not been published and possibly never will be published.
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EXTREME HEAT WAVES AND EXTREME SUMMER SEASONS IN EUROPEAN RUSSIA
Meteorologiya i GidrologiyaIn the study, the large-scale heat waves manifested in one or more latitudinal zones of European Russia: south of 50° N, within 50°-60° N, and north of 60° N are considered. For each zone, the changes in the total seasonal duration of heat waves since the beginning of the 20th century and associated changes in the average seasonal temperature in the ...
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Extreme heat for US and Russia
New Scientist, 2018Russia already has a heatwave problem. Its worst for 40 years struck in summer 2010. Temperatures passed 40°C, compared with a seasonal average of 23°C, and the heatwave lasted all of July and into mid-August. It resulted in the deaths of 55,000 people in western Russia--14,000 in Moscow alone--and caused economic losses of $15 billion, not least ...
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