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Lives disrupted and stunted by ongoing climate disasters

"Unicef-commissioned report shows being unable to finish high school – and the associated wage loss – is the most significant impact of increasingly frequent disasters on young people. Experts and advocates fear the lifelong consequences facing young people are being overlooked in disaster responses as what were previously known as “one-in-a-hundred years” disasters increase in frequency and severity."

"Unicef Australia is calling for the government to create a policy framework to support young people during and after natural disasters. “[We need] a better plan around the things that children need, around education and having enough supports to help them with their mental health if they’re traumatised by an event."
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/11/natural-disasters-forecast-cost-australia-young-people-unicef
#PlanetaryHealth #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #intergenerationalJustice #inequality #YoungPeople #children #parenting #ChildAbuse #bushfires #floods #disasters #HeatStress #MentalHealth #trauma #HotOcean #FoamAndBlooms

https://grist.org/labor/fast-food-workers-dangerous-heat-inside-restaurants/

#fastfoodworkers #heatstress

Deforestation kills

"Deforestation is responsible for more than a third of the warming experienced by people living in the affected regions. Deforestation has killed more than half a million people in the tropics over the past two decades as a result of heat-related illness, a study has found."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/27/deforestation-has-killed-half-a-million-people-in-past-20-years-study-finds
#deforestation #LoggingAndLandclearing #LoggingImpacts #ExtremeHeat #HeatStress #mortality #BiodiversityCrisis #canopy #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #degradation #harm

Plants repress ROS1 expression to attenuate heat-induced transposon burst.

#Transposons #Retrotransposons #ROS1 #RepressorOfSilencing1 #HeatStress #ONSEN #Arabidopsis #PlantScience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02076-9

Turtles and Heat: 4 Essential Tips for Safe Summer Care

#CareTips #HeatStress #ReptileHealth #Summer #Turtles
https://blazetrends.com/turtles-and-heat-4-essential-tips-for-safe-summer-care/?fsp_sid=92137

At 30 °C, turkeys stand for hours in traffic jams—tightly packed, without shade, panting from the heat. Transported in crates resembling vegetable boxes, they appear like mere commodities. Transporting animals in such heat violates animal welfare. #AnimalTransport #HeatStress

New publication: Asymmetric Micro-Evolutionary Responses in a Warming World: Heat-Driven Adaptation Enhances Metal Tolerance in a Planktonic Rotifer, but Not Vice Versa. #climatechange #coppertoxicity #heatstress #pollution
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70347

Paper in @kireports.bsky.social www.kireports.org/article/S246... #CKDu #HeatStress #NephSky

The Hidden Dangers of Heatwaves: Neuroimmune Responses and Cognitive Risks

#BrainHealth #HeatwaveRisks #Neuroinflammation #ClimateChange #HeatStress #Neuroscience #VulnerablePopulations #WildfireSmoke #CognitiveHealth #ProtectYourBrain

https://youtube.com/shorts/NX-T5XN7dgQ?feature=share

The claim is circulating that antidepressants can cause overheating and dehydration. This is a genuine public health message, but it's not so simple: diuretics, beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, antipsychotics, and some antihistamines may also interact badly with hot weather.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/well/live/heat-weather-medication-safety.html (excerpt in a reply)

There's even doubt about antidepressants having this effect. A recent paper in eClinicalMedicine looked at all the studies they could find and concluded that there wasn't evidence of antidepressants causing overheating in hot weather - though some other medicines do.

"Current evidence supports strong anticholinergics, non-selective beta-blockers, adrenaline, and anti-Parkinson’s agents impairing thermoregulation during heat stress ... physicians should interpret with caution conventional public health messaging related to the thermoregulatory effects of some drugs (e.g., antidepressants) during hot weather."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00465-6/fulltext

#Antidepressants #Diuretics #AnticholinergicMedications #MedMastodon #BetaBlockers #HeatWaves #Thermoregulation #OverHeating #Dehydration #SideEffects #AdverseEffects #AdverseEvents #DrugSideEffects #DrugSafety #HeatStress #HotWeather #HotWeatherSafety #PublicHealth #ACEinhibitors #Antipsychotics

🇨🇦 Extreme heat in Toronto Sun+: health warning
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-extreme-heat-1.7565200

Multi-day heat event w. temperatures in 30s to hit Toronto Sun-Wed

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114716628024524891

🇺🇲 Heat dome: worrisome temperatures/humidity across much of U.S
https://apnews.com/article/heat-dome-index-humidity-extreme-temperatures-e42735a682f43ab29ec3367472f19910

* life-threatening: know symptoms/dangers of heat stroke
* hydrate; keep cool: showers/wet towels

https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110606528349698407
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110597948572399291

Heat dome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Western_North_America_heat_wave

#ExtremeWeather #HeatDome #ExtremeHeat #HeatStress #HeatStroke

New publication: Priming for seagrass resilience: DNA methylation and transcriptomic insights into #heatstress memory in #Posidoniaoceanica seedlings. #climatechange #seagrass #marineheatwave #stressmemory
https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.70246

Figure 7 in Pazzaglia et al. (2025): "Graphical representation of main results. Schematic representation of the main molecular mechanisms regulated during the thermo-priming treatment and the exposure to heat stress in Posidonia oceanica seedlings. Shared mechanisms are highlighted with green arrows and report the main drivers of the general heat stress response that were differentially methylated in the present study."

#Texas needs these!

How an innovative portable shelter could help India's outdoor workers beat the heat https://buff.ly/b5i23r3

#climatechange #extremeheat #outdoors #workingoutdoor #outdoorliving #urbanization #heatisland #heatstress

I'll briefly explain why you should build and renovate with bio-based materials, even if you don't want to save the climate. #heat #heatstress #heatisland #hitzeaktionstag