Our new research published in Nature Climate Change shows the upper limits of human heat tolerance were breached for a total ...

Heat waves fueled by climate change killed scores of people and upended daily life. Here are some of those stories.

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USDA–Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists as well as private breeders across the Cotton Belt are developing cotton lines that have higher levels of tolerance to heat stress.

Animals and humans develop a certain tolerance to prolonged heat: the body adjusts to release heat instead of generating it, and the metabolism and cardiovascular system adapt. Researchers at the ...

There’s sure to be a versatile heat-tolerant plant in this list that matches your overall conditions and landscaping design ideas. Just be sure to keep your hardiness zone, soil type and other ...

The development has been revealed just months after Australia saw its third mass bleaching event in five years, amid record-high ocean temperatures at the Great Barrier Reef, as The Guardian ...

Here are some ways you can use these practices in your home garden. Unstressed or heat tolerant bean plants produce full-length pods with even seed development (left). Moderate heat stress can result ...

Plant types used in the experiment Due to limitations of the heat tolerance germplasm in Thailand, our breeding team screened for rice germplasm from 10000 Jao Hom Nin mutant rice plants that can ...

But heat-tolerant cultivars are less likely to be damaged and may offer a lifeline. According to Niigata prefectural officials, the heat-tolerant “Shinnosuke” variety developed by the ...

Lethal heat combined with humidity proved deadly. Our new research shows the upper limits of human heat tolerance were ...