Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever measured. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
After days of forecasters warning of dangerous heat, Massachusetts will be identifying and evaluating if anyone died due to the heat. Previously Massachusetts was among states that did not track heat-related deaths where exposure to extreme heat was a secondary factor. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences, is quoted.
Medical providers and public health experts worry that the health care system is poorly equipped to handle the influx. The UW's Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of environmental and occupational health sciences, global health and emergency medicine; and Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences, are quoted.
Even when it seems obvious that extreme heat was a factor, death certificates don’t always reflect the role it played. Experts say a mishmash of ways more than 3,000 counties calculate heat deaths means we don’t really know how many people die in the U.S. each year because of high temperatures in an ever warming world.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As extreme heat worsens, cities are exploring ways to reach isolated individuals before it’s too late.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. It could even be the hottest month in human history. And it’s just one in a chain of broken heat records.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by Phoenix standards. It wasn’t even high enough to trigger an official heat warning for the wider public. But research has shown that those temperatures, coming so early in June, would drive up the number of heat-related hospital visits and deaths across the Boston region.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
The punishing heatwaves that have scorched much of the U.S. could result in a record number of heat-related deaths this year, experts have warned, amid a spike in hospitalizations from collapsing workers.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Phoenix sizzled through its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) and other parts of the country grappled Sunday with record temperatures after a week that saw significant portions of the U.S. population subject to extreme heat.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.