Heat stress in Africa under high intensity climate change

We show the increase in demand for cooling in Africa is non uniform and that equatorial countries are exposed to higher heat stress than higher latitude ...

Heat stress in Africa under high intensity climate change - PubMed

We show the increase in demand for cooling in Africa is non uniform and that equatorial countries are exposed to higher heat stress than higher ...

(PDF) Heat stress in Africa under high intensity climate change

We find that humanity is more vulnerable to moist heat stress than previously proposed because of these lower thermal limits. Still, limiting ...

Dangerous humid heat in southern West Africa about 4°C hotter due ...

Southern West Africa experienced unusually excessive humid heat early in the season. ... with high risk of heat stroke, with values up to 60°C ( ...

Projected Impact of Increased Global Warming on Heat Stress and ...

Increased global warming induces more spatially and temporally widespread extreme heat events over West, Central and North-East Africa ...

Analytical Brief - World Health Organization (WHO)

These findings underscore the severe impact of global warming on health and environmental stability across Africa. ... Observed Impacts of Extreme Heat and ...

Africa is getting hotter - Wits University

Continued extreme heat exposure is affecting the health of vulnerable groups in communities. With extreme heat conditions increasing because of ...

Climate change made West Africa's heatwave 10 times more likely

Throughout February, western Africa was hit by unusually intense heat. Temperatures exceeded 40C in some regions, prompting the Ghanaian and ...

Lancet report: Heat stress wiped out equivalent of 4 ... - Carbon Brief

Loss of labour caused by heat stress wiped out the equivalent of 4% of Africa's GDP in 2022, warns a new report from the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate ...

The effects of extreme heat on human health in tropical Africa - NCBI

High temperatures can cause a rise in core body temperature and heart rate and lead to heat stress, heat stroke and, in extreme cases, death. Individuals with ...

Heat stress is rising in southern Africa – climate experts show where ...

Heat stress causes dehydration, headaches, nausea – and, when people are exposed to high temperatures for protracted periods, they risk severe ...

Heat exposure and child nutrition: Evidence from West Africa

Linking 15 rounds of repeated cross-section data from five West African countries to geo-coded weather data, we find that extreme heat exposure increases the ...

Intensifying human-driven heatwaves characteristics and heat ...

Various factors, such as urbanization, climate change-related effects, population density, geographic factors, social structures, the built ...

Africa is getting hotter - PreventionWeb.net

With extreme heat conditions increasing because of climate change ... on which increasing temperatures in Africa will impact. Mortality ...

Heat stress in Africa under high intensity climate change

High temperatures cause heat stress on humans, livestock, crops and infrastructure. Heat stress exposure is projected to increase with ongoing climate change.

The future urban heat-wave challenge in Africa: Exploratory analysis

In Africa, heat waves are increasing in intensity and frequency (Ceccherini et al., 2017) and with increasing climate change, this region is also projected to ...

High‐Temperature Extreme Events Over Africa Under 1.5 and 2 °C ...

We found that limiting warming to 0.5 °C lower than 2 °C may lead to benefits of between 29% and 42% reductions in intensity and frequency of heat events ...

Greatly enhanced risk to humans as a consequence of empirically ...

We find that humanity is more vulnerable to moist heat stress than previously proposed because of these lower thermal limits.

Climate change in Africa: costs of mitigating heat stress

The increase in temperatures and changes to the precipitation distribution under climate change are projected to increase the intensity of heat ...

Heat stress: adaptation measures in South African informal settlements

However, for the future 2100 climate scenarios this strategy only lowers excessive heat stress conditions by 12–17%. This calls for the development of ...