Jamie Hailstone is a UK-based reporter, who covers sustainability, focussing on pollution, the circular economy and calls for healthier cities. He’s covered electric school buses, air quality and plastic pollution in the oceans. Previously, Hailstone was editor of Environment Journal Online and Air Quality News.
National Park in Death Valley, California, on July 16, 2023. Tens of millions of Americans braced for more sweltering temperatures Sunday as brutal conditions threatened to break records due to a relentless heat dome that has baked parts of the country all week. By the afternoon of July 15, 2023, California's famous Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, had reached a sizzling 124F , with Sunday's peak predicted to soar as high as 129F .
“This implies that a far wider range of regions will be exposed to heat stress than what was previously expected,” the report states. And protecting vulnerable groups, outdoor workers, pregnant woman and the elderly will require specific measures. Hallvard Samset said the latest research shows that carbon emissions are starting to level off, but global warming will still continue for at least 20 or 30 years.
And he said air pollution is influencing rising temperatures and rainfall, which will lead to more extreme weather events.
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