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If you work in an office, chances are you or the person sitting next to you has grumbled about it being too hot or cold.
Heat cost Australia nearly A$7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.
Sound waves are made of particles called phonons. New research shows they’re affected by magnetic fields, with researchers able to steer heat magnetically.
Fever indicates a problem, but is there anything wrong with feeling excessively cold rather than actually being cold?
Exercise alone can be hard, but exercising in the heat is a whole lot harder. Put simply, this is due to the balance between how much heat the body generates and how much it is capable of losing.
Picture a device that can produce electricity using nothing but the ambient heat around it. Thanks to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science today, this scenario is a…
This summer we have seen one of the most dramatic animal die-offs ever recorded in Australia: at least 45,500 flying foxes dead on just one extremely hot day in southeast Queensland, according to our new…
Air conditioners across the country are running on full this week as Australia battles a heatwave – but are we missing an obvious, leafy solution? Trees, which provide shade and act as natural air conditioners…
Solar and wind power rightly receive a lot of attention as we struggle to ramp up renewable electricity and move away from fossil fuels. But in a damp, blustery island such as ours, generating heat is…
Winter is coming, and all across the southern states eyes turn to energy bills and minds towards how to make them smaller. What is the most efficient way to heat your house? As with anything to do with…
As the weather starts to cool down and winter clothes enter rotation in our wardrobes, some peculiar combinations emerge: shorts and scarves; thongs and jackets; T-shirts and beanies. The last is often…
Monthly temperature extremes have become much more frequent, measurements from around the world indicate. On average, there…
Acclimatising to heat is a tough gig. Since 1970, central Australian regions have warmed 1.2ᵒC and as the world continues to get warmer, increasingly common and increasingly intense heat waves will make…
As Australia stares at “a once-in-20 or 30-year heatwave”, with temperatures over 40 degrees, it is likely that more extreme weather events similar to this are in store for us. The probability of this…
Heatwaves like the one sweeping Australia today will become more common as the globe warms, with record high temperatures already outpacing record lows by a ratio of three to one, experts said today. Temperatures…
Holding a body close to you, it’s easy to appreciate the warmth a human body can generate. Humans are “warm-blooded” animals. We’re able to effectively maintain a stable internal temperature, even on cold…
The “reasonable person” would agree that disaster risk is best avoided. Under a changing climate, how exposed people are to risk and how socially and physically vulnerable they are affects how often disasters…
Are the tornadoes in the USA, or the floods in Queensland and Victoria, or the record drought in southwest Australia, or the Russian heatwave of last year or western Europe in 2003, or Black Saturday…
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Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Ph.D. Candidate in Exercise Physiology, Penn State
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Kinesiology, Penn State
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Professor of Physiology, Kinesiology and Human Performance, Penn State
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Geographer-climatologist and Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State
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Professor Emeritus, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Health & Physical Education (Adj.), Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer in Exercise and Environmental Physiology, University of Hull
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Professor and Head of School, Anatomy Physiology and Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
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Purple House Medical Advisor. Honorary ANU., Australian National University
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Professor, School of Physiology; Director, Brain Function Research Group, University of the Witwatersrand
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Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
