Results 41 to 50 of about 13,327 (303)

Effects of a heatwave on cognitive abilities in Poecilia reticulata males

, 2023
reservedEffects of a simulated heat wave on cognitive abilities in adult Poecilia reticulata The intensity and frequency of extreme events, such as heatwaves, are increasing due to climate change.
DUDINE, LUNA
core  

Maternal exposure to heatwave and preterm birth in Brisbane, Australia [PDF]

, 2013
Objective To quantify the short-term effects of maternal exposure to heatwave on preterm birth. Design An ecological study. Setting A population-based study in Brisbane, Australia.
Wang, Jiajia, Williams, G., Tong, Shilu, G Williams, Tong, S., J Wang, Wang, J., S Tong, Guo, Yuming, Y Guo, X Pan, Guo, Y., Pan, X., Williams, Gail, Pan, Xiaochuan   +14 more
core   +3 more sources

Weather Attention in Online Discourse and Price Uncertainty in Agricultural Futures Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Weather is a central determinant of production risk in agricultural markets, but markets respond not only to weather conditions themselves, but also to how those conditions are noticed, framed, and interpreted in public discourse. In this setting, real‐time online weather discussions may shape price uncertainty by influencing how market ...
Mario A. Ortez, Olga Isengildina Massa, Michael Liam Smith, Nicole Olynk Widmar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of heatwaves on all-cause mortality in India: A comprehensive multi-city study

Environment International
Background: Heatwaves are expected to increase with climate change, posing a significant threat to population health. In India, with the world’s largest population, heatwaves occur annually but have not been comprehensively studied.
Jeroen de Bont, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Massimo Stafoggia, Tirthankar Banerjee, Vijendra Ingole, Suganthi Jaganathan, Siddhartha Mandal, Ajit Rajiva, Bhargav Krishna, Itai Kloog, Kevin Lane, Rajesh K Mall, Abhiyant Tiwari, Yaguang Wei, Gregory A. Wellenius, Dorairaj Prabhakaran, Joel Schwartz, Poornima Prabhakaran, Petter Ljungman   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

The causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on Germany's grasslands during a compound drought and heatwave in 2018

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Preserving ecosystem services, along with economic and environmental benefits, will require future landscape policies to identify and incorporate relevant landscape features. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on drought‐related grassland damages.
Marco Ferro, Jan Börner, Silke Hüttel, Katja Kowalski, Patrick Hostert, Krisztina Kis‐Katos   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mortality Burden of Heatwaves in Sydney, Australia Is Exacerbated by the Urban Heat Island and Climate Change: Can Tree Cover Help Mitigate the Health Impacts?

Atmosphere, 2022
Heatwaves are associated with increased mortality and are exacerbated by the urban heat island (UHI) effect. Thus, to inform climate change mitigation and adaptation, we quantified the mortality burden of historical heatwave days in Sydney, Australia ...
Timothy B. Chaston, Richard A. Broome, Nathan Cooper, Gerard Duck, Christy Geromboux, Yuming Guo, Fei Ji, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Ying Zhang, Gnanadarsha S. Dissanayake, Geoffrey G. Morgan, Ivan C. Hanigan   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A longitudinal study of heatwave-health vulnerability in Australia [PDF]

Heatwave is an increasing threat to public health in Australia. However, the extent of spatiotemporal variations in heatwave-health vulnerability across Australia is still unclear.
Phung, Dung, Osborne, Nicholas J, Amoatey, Patrick, Trancoso, Ralph, Xu, Zhiwei   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Cognitive Performance in Young Adults During Three Consecutive Days of Simulated Occupational Heat Stress: An Exploratory Study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Global increases in occupational heat exposure are raising concerns about worker safety and cognitive performance during prolonged and repeated shifts. At present, the cumulative effects of repeated heat exposure on cognitive performance remain unclear.
Daniel C. Moore, Sean R. Notley, Brad Aisbett, Jarrad Lum, Luana C. Main   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

How households adapt to heat wave for livable habitat? A case of medium-sized city in Bangladesh

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2022
Heatwave is now becoming an alarming climate-induced shock in Bangladesh. Several investigations mainly focus on the impacts of heatwave and mitigation strategies on megacity and urban heat islands.
Shehan Tawsif, Md. Shafiul Alam, Abdullah Al-Maruf   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heatwave management: reducing the risk to public health [PDF]

, 2014
This audit found shortcomings in the Victorian Department of Health\u27s heatwave framework that need to be addressed as a matter of urgency if Victoria is to be adequately prepared for a prolonged heatwave.

core