Sunday, January 19, 2025

Heat, the main threat to workers agr waves: Stanford specialists

By Olivia Wynkoop. Bay City News
Photographer: Manuel Ortiz

As the world faces an increase in the duration, frequency and intensity of heat waves, a panel of Stanford scholars and other experts discussed the risk of extreme heat as a threat to farmworkers in a webinar on climate resilience on Thursday.

The average amount of days American farmworkers spend working in unsafe conditions will double by mid-century, according to a new study.