The large story
The hunt to guard farmworkers from excessive warmth
October 2024
On July 21, 2024, temperatures soared in lots of elements of the world, breaking the document for the most popular day ever recorded on the planet.
The next day—July 22—the document 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 need to preserve laboring.
The results will be extreme, resulting in diseases reminiscent of 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 prone to growing warmth sickness and issuing an alert. If broadly adopted and constantly used, it may symbolize a strategy to make staff safer on farms even with out vital warmth protections. Learn the total story.
—Kalena Thomhave
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