Personal protective clothing with versatile and durable features is highly desirable for daily
and specific environmental scenarios. Especially for outdoor workers or sports enthusiasts …

Abstract In Sub-Saharan Africa, many cities are facing an increased risk of heat due to
climate change and rapid urbanization. This poses a particular threat in areas with limited …

A new bias-corrected, statistically downscaled product, the NASA Earth Exchange Global
Daily Downscaled Projections (NEX-GDDP) dataset, has been developed and released to …

Over the past decades, the world has experienced increasing heatwave intensity, frequency,
and duration. This trend is projected to increase into the future with climate change. At the …

Heat extremes severely affect human-health. Their impacts can be further exacerbated when
humidity is included, which forms a kind of compound extremes called as compound …

A quantitative framework for characterizing the intensity of the water cycle over land is
presented, and illustrated using a spatially distributed water-balance model of the …

Climate change presents significant threats to human health, especially for low-income
urban communities in the Global South. Despite numerous studies of heat stress …

The higher heat load in urban areas than that in rural areas increases the heat stress of
citizens and cooling load. Ecosystem-based planning can be a cost-effective solution for …

Extreme weather events can cause significant human, economic and infrastructure losses.
Within a changing climate, heatwaves, droughts, and floods are becoming more frequent …

Cumulative and synergistic impacts from environmental pressures, particularly in low-lying
tropical coastal regions, present challenges for the governance of ecosystems, which …