Extreme heat: what does it do to us and how can we adapt?

As record temperatures spread across the world, Ian Sample sets out
to understand what heat does to our bodies and what we can do to
mitigate it without causing more damage to the environment. He
visits Prof Lewis Halsey’s team at the University of Roehampton and
learns first-hand about the body’s response to heat. He also hears
from scientists Prof Jean Palutikof and Dr Aaron Bach about how we
can adapt buildings and working conditions in a changing climate..
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