Helping women adapt to extreme heat helps us all

Jamaica Gleaner

Helping women adapt to extreme heat helps us all

LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO :Climate shocks – from heatwaves to droughts, floods to wildfires – often hit women the hardest. New research published this May in The Lancet found that even in wealthy European countries, women died at nearly twice the rate as men from extreme heat over the last two decades. According to Marcos Quijal, one of the report’s authors, the findings “reflect a global trend". In July, as heat records accumulated, causing even m…