The degree to which heat stress and exertional heat stroke may have played a role in these deaths is also unclear.
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Cows produce less milk when the temperature soars due to heat stress.
Increased heat stress and disease (as insects flourish in the mild winters) will destroy more and more forests, and less CO2 uptake occurs.
Experiments carried out by the scientists showed that a 2C rise in temperatures caused heat stress in the trees, shutting down the plants' photosynthesis.
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If they do delay, they run the risk of losing the crop to heat stress, or worse, losing their precious vines to a bushfire.
The cause of death could have been the result of a fungal infection or animal damage, but because there was no obvious cause, she increasingly suspects drought and heat stress.
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The likely reason is that many of those dying in the heat are already seriously ill and even without heat stress would have died within the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Extreme European summers would cause hundreds of thousands of deaths due to heat stress while rising sea levels would devastate vulnerable coastal areas and cities including New York, London, Shanghai and Bombay.
What health scientists are telling us is that climate change will bring increased asthma, more virulent allergens, medical emergencies from heat stress, the spread of water- and vector-borne diseases and increased severe weather events.
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That includes five deaths -- of men ages 48, 58 and 59 and two women ages 81 and 91 -- because of "heat stress" in Chicago, city public health spokesman Efrat Stein said Friday.
In previous experiments, De Pomerai's team studied worms that were genetically modified to generate a heat-stress protein when exposed to stresses other than heat.
Warm weather has claimed the highest number of cockles, with up to 20% on the densest part of the beds suffering "post-spawning heat-related stress".
Eczema can be worsened by stress, heat, dry air and sweating.
They will bring some of their 12 cows to the county fair this year but leave a mother and her calf behind because of the stress of the heat.
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Bally and IGT stress tools like player tracking or "heat maps" to show pockets of busy casino floor activity and which games are generating the most profit.
Not only do firefighters deal with extreme heat and exertion, they also are exposed to toxic substances and psychological stress.
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