Mortality rates during heat waves have been put in the spotlight with research from The University of Queensland showing a 20 ...

Humidity, the amount of moisture in the air, is a crucial component of weather conditions. It varies significantly across ...

As global temperatures rise, more regions are experiencing heat levels that exceed the human body's ability to cool itself.

Adaptation can also involve changing how and where people live, prohibiting them from rebuilding in areas that repeatedly ...

New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

Last month set a new record for the hottest January ever documented, surprising climate experts who expected heat to ease up due to La Niña.

Hosting the world's largest religious gathering comes with big environmental challenges. However, spiritual leaders in India ...

The onset of some level of climate upheaval or widespread destruction of biomes and human lives, mild or severe, has ...

Despite enduring one of the coldest winters in years, Laos continues to grapple with the lasting effects of the past years of ...

The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it's happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new dye that can strongly absorb second near-IR radiation and transform it to heat ... near-IR waves easily penetrate human tissue ...

The team’s new compound can absorb electromagnetic waves in the NIR-II part of the spectrum, where waves can penetrate deeper into human tissue and generate heat, leading to photoacoustic emissions.