Climate impacts on health and urban areas: Heatwaves and death rate
E-Mail Over the last half-century, the probability of heat extreme events has changed by orders of magnitude in almost every region of the world, with occurrences that are now up to a hundred times more in respect to a century ago. Of all-natural disasters, extreme high temperature events are the main cause of weather-related mortality and they are also expected to be the main factor responsible for additional deaths due to climate change in the coming years. In cities, the heat island effect creates higher temperatures than in vegetated areas. But conditions within urban areas are not equa...
Source: eurekalert.org