Extreme Heat in South Asia Challenges Worker Performances
October 22, 2024
UC San Diego’s Teevrat Garg explores how extreme heat affects workforces in low- and middle-income countries.
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Extreme Heat in India: A Crisis on the Rise
July 30, 2024
As global temperatures continue to rise, India is grappling with increasingly severe heat waves. As early as April, many Indian cities, including New Delhi, the capital, have experienced record temperatures above 115 degrees Fahrenheit.
Sustainability Experts at UC San Diego Give Tips on How to Beat the Heat and Save Energy
July 10, 2012
Heat waves and power outages have been plaguing the nation in recent weeks and temperatures are expected to rise higher than usual in San Diego County within a few days.
Still Time to Act: Impending Disasters Could Spur Progress Mitigating Climate Change
August 5, 2018
…extreme events, such as heat waves, the collapse of major ice sheets, and mass extinctions are becoming dramatically more probable. Though cuts in rising emissions appear unlikely with the stalled 2015 Paris agreement, University of California San Diego scientists argue that new developments present an opportunity to shift the politics…
Heat Waves Amplify Existing Inequities. Meet the Researchers Working to Change That.
September 3, 2024
With record-breaking heat becoming the new norm, the consequences are far from evenly distributed, with communities of color, low-income neighborhoods and medically vulnerable individuals bearing the brunt of extreme heat exposure. At UC San Diego, researchers are not just examining the disparities, but are actively searching for solutions.
UCSD Uses Heat Energy to Fix Odd Heart Beat
February 16, 2012
UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center is now offering patients with atrial fibrillation the breakthrough benefits of heat energy, or radio frequency waves, to irreversibly alter heart tissue that triggers an abnormal heart rhythm or arrhythmia.
7 Ways Heat Impacts Health
July 9, 2024
Drawing from the expertise of the UC San Diego community, UC San Diego Today presents a list of seven ways that heat impacts health. Through collaboration and innovation, these insights can help pave the way for a healthier future for all.
A Scientific Advance for Cool Clothing: Temperature-wise, That Is
April 19, 2017
By applying a novel computer algorithm to closely mimic how the brain learns, a team of researchers – with the aid of the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego – has identified and replicated neural circuitry that resembles the way an unimpaired…
Seismic Network Will Measure the Effects of Ocean Waves on Antarctic Ice Shelves
October 23, 2014
Starting in November, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, researchers and colleagues will embark on an ambitious and arduous mission funded by the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs to install a seismic array on Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf.
Dual Impacts of Extreme Heat, Ozone Disproportionately Hurt Poorer Areas
May 24, 2021
Scientists at UC San Diego, San Diego State University and colleagues find that extreme heat and elevated ozone levels, often jointly present during California summers, affect certain ZIP codes more than others. Those areas across the state most adversely affected tend to be poorer areas.
