Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

Tom Matthews; Emma E. Ramsay; Fahad Saeed; Steven Sherwood; Ollie Jay; Colin Raymond; Nerilie Abram; Jason Kai Wei Lee; Shanta Barley; Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick; Mariam Saleh Khan; Katrin J. Meissner; Callum Roberts; Dileep Mavalankar; Kenneth G. C. Smith; Atta Ullah; Anwar Sadad; Victoria Turner; Andrew Forrest

doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

Tom Matthews, Emma E. Ramsay, Fahad Saeed, Steven Sherwood, Ollie Jay, Colin Raymond, Nerilie Abram, Jason Kai Wei Lee, Shanta Barley, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Mariam Saleh Khan, Katrin J. Meissner, Callum Roberts, Dileep Mavalankar, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Atta Ullah, Anwar Sadad, Victoria Turner, Andrew Forrest

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-6
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	15
Issue number	1
Early online date	Dec 2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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Matthews, T., Ramsay, E. E., Saeed, F., Sherwood, S., Jay, O., Raymond, C., Abram, N., Lee, J. K. W., Barley, S., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Khan, M. S., Meissner, K. J., Roberts, C., Mavalankar, D., Smith, K. G. C., Ullah, A., Sadad, A., Turner, V., & Forrest, A. (2025). Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality. Nature Climate Change, 15(1), 4-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

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