In a world where climate change is no longer just a distant threat, new research from the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, Purdue University College of Sciences, and Purdue Institute for a.
If global temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius (C) or more than current levels, each year billions of people will be exposed to heat and humidity so extreme they will be unable to naturally cool themselves.
By the end of the century, climate induced heatwaves could expose up to 2.2 billion people in India’s Indus Valley and Pakistan to many hours of intolerable extreme heat to the extent that they will begin to experience heat-related health illnesses, such as heat stroke or heart attack which can