The day they found Lee Odgers, it was so hot that the wax candles inside her Northeast Philadelphia apartment had started to melt.
Environment
Sep 13, 2019
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Researchers from Tsinghua University and Brown University have discovered a simple way to give a major boost to turbulent heat exchange, a method of heat transport widely used in heating, ventilation and air conditioning ...
General Physics
Aug 1, 2019
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Paris on Thursday baked in a record hot temperature of 41 degrees Celsius as a ferocious heatwave in northern Europe reached its peak, sparking concerns about public health and new misery for rail travellers.
Environment
Jul 25, 2019
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Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of the continent and is already breaking records.
Environment
Jul 24, 2019
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Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of the continent and is already breaking records.
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2019
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New research, led by Loughborough University academics, has found that tropical cyclones followed by deadly heat is an emerging weather threat that could put millions of people at risk as global temperatures continue to rise.
Environment
Jul 22, 2019
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Americans braced for a second—and equally scorching—day of dangerously hot weather Sunday, with daytime temperatures forecast to approach 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) across a number of major US cities.
Environment
Jul 21, 2019
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China and the U.S. has found that data from El Niño and Antarctic Oscillation events can be used to predict air pollution levels in northern India. In their paper ...
Boffins call it a heat sink—a passive exchanger designed to dissipate heat—but when the sink is an actual city, its concrete and asphalt sweltering in the heat, it feels more like an oven to those who live and work there.
Environment
Jun 25, 2019
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Mexico City declared an environmental alert Tuesday, ordering vehicles off the road and postponing the semi-finals of the first-division football league as a blanket of smog enveloped the sprawling capital.
Environment
May 14, 2019
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