New Report: Climate harms to health are widespread and costly

UK Met Office to introduce new extreme heat warning

Miami, Athens and Freetown to appoint world’s 1st Chief Heat Officers

Miami-Dade County, Florida, Athens, Greece and Freetown, Sierra Leone will appoint the world’s first-ever Chief Heat Officers, as part of the Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance‘s City Champions for Heat Action (CCHA) initiative. Learn more > 

In Miami, the newly appointed Chief Heat Officer urges the US to fight the 'silent killer' of the climate crisis. Learn more > 

Extreme heat forms across Arabian Peninsula after record Russian heatwave

Extreme heat has now developed across the Arabian Peninsula following a record heatwave across the Russian Arctic earlier this week. Temperatures are reaching nearly 50 °C (122 °F) and are expected to spread further east towards Pakistan and northwest India this week. Learn more > 

European State of Climate Report 2021 highlights heat stress

The report is unique in providing every year with a consistent methodology trends and patterns of heat and cold stress across Europe. Further, this year’s findings align with an unusually warm winter in northern Europe and no long-lived heatwaves across the continent.  Check out the full report >

New legislation in Qatar provides greater protection to workers from heat stress 

As temperatures soar across the Gulf region, Qatar has adopted new rules to protect workers from extreme heat, including expansion of prohibited summertime work hours, upper heat level thresholds, annual health checks, mandatory risk assessment. The decision was informed, in part by an assessment led by the FAME Lab from the University of Thessaly. Learn more and check out the assessment > 

A new, deadly risk for cities in summer: power failures during heat waves

New York Times. The growing risk of overlapping heat waves and power failures poses a severe threat that major American cities are not prepared for, new research suggests. Learn more >

NOAA Post-Doc Opportunity: Statistical Downscaling for Heat-Health Applications

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