The New York Times
Extreme Heat Will Change Us Half the world could soon face dangerous heat. We measured the daily toll it is already taking. When it’s this hot, laborers start work in the middle of the night. The heat of the day can give you a fever. Even play is impossible when a merry-go-round can sear […]
Podcast series
Heat, Physiology and the Environment – Episode 2 with Dr Andreas Flouris The latest episode of Karachi Urban Lab podcast series find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66iJCQasY0Q&list=PLW7PR4D9j-vEC-MAL03823WRDUz_Xmmhq&index=3
TIME
Thousands of Migrant Workers Died in Qatar’s Extreme Heat The World Cup Forced a Reckoning. This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Not long after the Gulf nation of Qatar was awarded the rights to host the 2022 World Cup soccer championships, Surendra Tamang hatched a plan to go. He had heard that Qatar […]
Environmental Health
Hot Pursuit: New Efforts to Prevent Heat-Related Illness on the Job A few months after arriving in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the winter of 2015, Erick Bandala began to struggle with the heat. Bandala, an environmental engineer, had come from Mexico to take a job with the Desert Research Institute. He recalls that the […]