The large story
The hunt to guard farmworkers from excessive warmth
October 2024
On July 21, 2024, temperatures soared in lots of components of the world, breaking the report for the most well liked day ever recorded on the planet.
The next day—July 22—the report was damaged once more.
However at the same time as the warmth index rises every summer time, the folks working outside to choose fruits, greens, and flowers should hold laboring.
The implications will be extreme, resulting in diseases reminiscent of warmth exhaustion, heatstroke and even acute kidney harm.
Now, researchers are growing an modern sensor that tracks a number of important indicators with a purpose of anticipating when a employee is susceptible to growing warmth sickness and issuing an alert. If broadly adopted and persistently used, it might signify a option to make employees safer on farms even with out important warmth protections. Learn the total story.
—Kalena Thomhave
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