Climate change is making farm work more dangerous than it already is
- Abstract
Heat is the number one weather-related killer in the U.S., claiming between 600 and 1,500 lives each summer. The danger is particularly acute in California’s agricultural inland regions like the Coachella Valley and Central Valley, where climate change and drought are producing heat waves that are increasingly severe.
- Resource Type
- Magazine/newspaper article
- Author
- Esperanza Mendez
- Publication
- Fusion
- Date
- July 15, 2016
- Organization Type
- News
- Health and Human Impact
- Heat illness/extreme temperature
- Climate and Environmental Impact
- Heat
- Other
- Vulnerable populations