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Soil drought can mitigate deadly heat stress thanks to a reduction of air humidity

Global warming increases the number and severity of deadly heatwaves. Recent heatwaves often coincided with soil droughts that intensify air temperature but lower air humidity. Since lowering air humidity may reduce human heat stress, the net impact of soil desiccation on the morbidity and mortality...

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Autores principales: Wouters, Hendrik, Keune, Jessica, Petrova, Irina Y., van Heerwaarden, Chiel C., Teuling, Adriaan J., Pal, Jeremy S., Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, Jordi, Miralles, Diego G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8741186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34995108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abe6653