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How will our bodies adapt to climate change?

Dec 8, 2024

As climate change impacts our planet, the podcast dives into how our bodies might adapt to the rising temperatures. It highlights a groundbreaking study involving climatonauts who will face extreme conditions to uncover our physiological responses. Expect intriguing insights into the science of adaptation and the urgent need for understanding these changes as we navigate a warming world. The discussion promises to reveal what we might endure and how our bodies could respond to future challenges.

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Ongoing research by France's Human Adaptation Institute aims to uncover how humans physiologically adapt to extreme climate conditions and heat.

The rise in heat-related deaths emphasizes the urgent need to understand the body's limitations and protective strategies against severe environmental changes.

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Understanding Human Adaptation to Climate Change

Research is being conducted to explore how the human body adapts to the challenges posed by climate change as significant warming continues. France's Human Adaptation Institute is leading three deep climate expeditions to gather data on how humans respond to extreme environmental conditions, with 20 volunteer climatonauts participating in these studies. Their journey includes extreme environments such as the equatorial forests of French Guiana, the Arctic Circle, and the hot, arid Saudi Arabian Desert. The focus is on understanding physiological and psychological adaptations to high temperatures and varying humidity levels, which are critical as heat-related deaths have significantly increased in recent years.

Adapting to Climate Change: Human Physiological Responses

5min

As we enter 2023, we’re desperately looking for ways to combat human-induced climate change. It’s a worthy cause, but it’s clear that some irreversible effects have already happened, and that will continue for some time.

So it would be foolish not to prepare for the reality of living on a planet which has undergone significant warming. There’s relatively little known about how our bodies will react, which is why France’s Human Adaptation Institute set up three Deep Climate expeditions to take place between December 2022 and June 2023. The project will help researchers understand better how the human body adapts to intense conditions. A team of 20 volunteer “climatonauts” with no field experience will be accompanied by explorer and project organiser Christian Clot.

What goes on during the expeditions? What bodily functions do we have to deal with climate change? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!

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A Bababam Originals podcast, written and produced by Joseph Chance.

First Broadcast: 8/2/2023

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