Hot ambient conditions and associated heat stress can increase mortality and morbidity, as
well as increase adverse pregnancy outcomes and negatively affect mental health. High …

Human health is linked to climatic factors in complex ways, and climate change can have
profound direct and indirect impacts on the health status of any given region. Susceptibility …

Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting
societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect …

Climate change affects human health; however, there have been no large-scale, systematic
efforts to quantify the heat-related human health impacts that have already occurred due to …

The year of 2023 was the warmest on record globally and the second warmest in Europe.
Here we applied epidemiological models to temperature and mortality records in 823 …

Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Ambient temperatures are rising worldwide, with the greatest increases recorded at night.
Concurrently, the prevalence of insufficient sleep is rising in many populations. Yet it …

Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

Epidemiological analyses of health risks associated with non-optimal temperature are
traditionally based on ground observations from weather stations that offer limited spatial …

Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to
human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean …