Global climate change disrupts key ecological processes and biotic interactions. The
recent increase in heatwave frequency and severity prompts the evaluation of physiological
processes that ensure the maintenance of vital ecosystem services such as ...

Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance

Freshwater ecosystems require adequate oxygen levels to sustain aerobic life and maintain healthy biological communities. However, both long-term climate warming and the increasing frequency and intensity of short-term heatwaves are significantly reducing…

Nature Climate Change - Heatwaves in lakes are increasing with climate change, but are typically studied at the surface; little is known about heatwave dynamics with depth. This study finds...

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Researchers found that the combination of heat waves and high PM2.5 pollution led to nearly 700,000 premature deaths in the past 30 years—most of which occurred in the Global South.

Rising temperatures and increasing hurricane intensity are behind the change.

Nature Climate Change - Ageing is linked to environmental factors. This study shows that although participants gradually adapted to heat over time, cumulative exposure to heatwaves had stable and...

A new study has linked the deadliest type of disaster — heat waves — directly to major fossil fuel companies and their products.

A study using data from over 1,000 rivers shows that these extreme events now last almost twice as long on the water as they do in the air

As Australia braces for another scorching summer, new research led by Flinders University sleep experts reveals that rising temperatures are silently chipping away at our sleep […]

Heatwaves in a net zero World, Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Sarah, Palmer, Lucinda, King, Andrew, Ziehn, Tilo

Nature Climate Change - The authors couple calculations of historical heatwave intensity at present and future global temperatures with exposure–response functions to quantify mortality from...

Animals in arid environments must maintain water balance despite persistent drought, heat and low food availability. Blood serum osmolality offers an integrative physiological measure of hydration, yet no prior study has examined it in wild mammals across…

Amplified land-atmosphere coupling has triggered a nonlinear increase in compound drought-heatwave events led by heatwaves.

Nature Geoscience - Coastal ocean warming drives the recent increase in large-scale aggregation of humid heatwaves, accounting for up to two-thirds of their rising frequency and spatial extent,...

Huntington's disease (HD) is driven by somatic expansion of the HTT CAG repeat, with onset modified by genetic factors. One such modifier, 8AM1, maps to chromosome 8 near RRM2B, a gene not directly involved in the machinery that lengthens the repeat. To investigate…

Scientists have a new name for a weather pattern reshaping how the West gets its water: so-called "snow-eater" heat waves.

Nature Climate Change - Heatwaves are expected to become more frequent and intense with global warming. Here the authors assess changes in their timing, finding that the heatwave season expands and...