EARTH Magazine: Crippling Heat Stress Projected by Midcentury in Densely Populated Regions
From EARTH Magazine, 04/15/2016 -- This issue, EARTH Magazine explores the world's top weather-related killer: exposure to extreme heat. 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.