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The salmon’s journey is one of the great wonders of nature.
Desperate to lower their body temperatures as quickly as possible, doctors filled body bags with ice and zipped them inside.
In a heat wave, wealth can afford twenty-five degrees of coolness.
As with most heat waves today, the people who died first were elderly folks who lived alone, or who were too poor to afford air-conditioning, or who had a medical problem that left them vulnerable.
Right now we’re more than halfway to 3.6 degrees (2 degrees Celsius) of warming from preindustrial temperatures, which scientists have long warned is the threshold for dangerous climate change.
Polar bears in the Arctic can’t migrate farther north. Frogs in Costa Rica aren’t going to hop up to Canada.
you can still die of heatstroke and be well hydrated.
Birth control pills can also increase core body temperature and make it more difficult for women to keep cool in the heat (or warm in the cold).
(Ironically, new, highly efficient LEED-certified buildings are tightly sealed, making them dangerous heat traps when the power goes out.)
The percentage of tree cover in Chennai is now about the same as in Phoenix.
In many places in the world today, heat is rising faster than our ability to adapt to it.
