“There isn’t a way for us to avoid this heat," he says. Gowda is among the over 400 million informal workers in India’s labour force who bear the brunt of heat stress every day.

Health experts warn that prolonged exposure to high temperatures increases the risk of heat exhaustion, dehydration, or even fatal heatstroke. India witnessed a number of suspected heatstroke ...

Heat stress that workers face in indoor environments may be vastly underestimated, says AIHA. In an effort to further protect indoor workers, AIHA has updated its Heat Stress app to 2.0. It includes ...

Heat stress has impacted 84% of the world’s coral reefs as surging ocean temperatures continue to fuel the most severe global bleaching event on record.

Heat stress happens when your body starts having problems regulating internal temperature due to high external temperatures. It may lead to heat-related illnesses like heat exhaustion and ...

Heat stress is one of the harmful conditions which occurs when our body is unable to regulate its temperature effectively thereby leading to hormonal imbalances and disruptions in the menstrual cycle.

SINGAPORE - The impact of heat on mental health is a less visible sign of heat stress, but it is one that people in South-east Asia should pay attention to as the world warms, experts at a heat ...

“With a stress-tolerant maize genotype, farmers are more likely to achieve food security, allocate less land to maize, and invest in other crops, promoting a more balanced diet, higher incomes ...

“With a stress-tolerant maize genotype, maize farmers are more likely to be food secured, they can allocate less land to maize and invest in other crops to the benefit of a more balanced diet, higher ...

Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals important roles of nonadditive genes in maize hybrid An’nong 591 under heat stress. BMC Plant Biol. 19, 273. doi: 10.1186/s12870-019-1878-8 ...

Heat stress kills at least 175,000 people each year across Europe, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates from earlier this year. It was found to be the leading cause of ...