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Why does this #heatwave feel so intense? 🥵 The Smith School’s Dr Mireia Ginesta explains how prolonged heat, high humidity and warm nights make extreme temperatures harder for our bodies to cope with - and why climate change is making heatwaves more frequent and severe.

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