Heat stress News
Worldwide the UN predicts 80 million jobs will be lost by 2030. Here's why.
The team conducted analyses to find out which genes were turned on or off when Symbiodinium was exposed to heat stress.
The new study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, projects that in coming decades the effects of high humidity in many areas will dramatically increase.
Researchers eventually want to develop the knowledge and tools the cattle industry needs to increase tolerance to heat stress.
With the temperature rising throughout the country, many people usually suffers from heat stroke, the most serious form of heat injury.
As per WHO's assessment, heat exposure will cause around 38,000 deaths in the elderly in the next 15 years. Also, deaths due to diarrhoea are projected to reach 48,000, and as many as 60,000 deaths due to malaria and 95,000 due to childhood malnutrition.
Humans' response to extreme heat leads to heat stress, an illness related to the body's inability to cool itself. Humidity plays a crucial role, because as humidity increases, the ability of sweat to evaporate and cool the body decreases.
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