the.com/climate stress
the planet's version of a bad hair day, except the hair is ecosystems and it never grows back the same.
means the physiological or systemic strain living things and infrastructure experience from shifting temperature, water, and weather patterns beyond their evolved or engineered tolerance.
from borrowed from plant biology, where drought stress and heat stress described crop damage long before climate change entered headlines, then scaled up to describe entire ecosystems, cities, and economies straining under warming.
coral bleachingis literally coral expelling algae under thermal stress
crop yieldsdrop sharply past specific heat-stress thresholds, not gradually
cities count tooinfrastructure has stress limits, like grids and rails