Climate change: how heatwaves affect the human body - South China Morning Post
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Nausea, fatigue and even death: what heat can do to the human body
Video | Climate change: how heatwaves affect the human body
- Doctors have warned about symptoms of heatstroke and heat exhaustion that vulnerable people should watch for as heatwaves persist around the world
Six students in India collapsed in a single day in May 2024 after temperatures hit a scorching 50 degrees Celsius (122°F) and days later, dozens of poll workers died from heat-related illnesses during the nation’s general elections.
Elsewhere in Asia, record highs were recently reported in Manila, Bangkok and the eastern Chinese city of Jinan.
In this video, the Post looks at the devastating and increasingly deadly impact of extreme heatwaves sweeping across the continent.
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What began as a theory in the 1890s — that industrial emissions of carbon dioxide could increase global temperatures — had progressed to a scientific fact a century later. Scientists across a range of disciplines are studying the impact of the still-growing concentration of carbon dioxide and other so-called “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere as they call for industrial and governmental policies to slow, then halt, the warming of the planet.