The massive story
The search to guard farmworkers from excessive warmth
October 2024
On July 21, 2024, temperatures soared in lots of components of the world, breaking the document for the most well liked day ever recorded on the planet.
The next day—July 22—the document was damaged once more.
However whilst the warmth index rises every summer time, the folks working open air to select fruits, greens, and flowers need to hold laboring.
The implications may be extreme, resulting in sicknesses resembling warmth exhaustion, heatstroke and even acute kidney damage.
Now, researchers are growing an revolutionary sensor that tracks a number of important indicators with a objective of anticipating when a employee is vulnerable to growing warmth sickness and issuing an alert. If extensively adopted and persistently used, it may symbolize a approach to make employees safer on farms even with out vital warmth protections. Learn the total story.
—Kalena Thomhave
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