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The 2026 World Cup Will Feature a Villainous Player: Extreme Heat

As athletes and academics urge FIFA to update its heat-stress framework, a study shows nearly a quarter of all games are likely to be played in dangerous temperatures.

By Gabriel Matias Castilho

Andrea Belotti of S.L. Benfica pours water on his face to cool off during a FIFA Club World Cup match at Bank of America Stadium on June 28, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. Credit: Justin Setterfield/FIFA via Getty Images
A street is inundated with floodwater during a King Tide event on Jan. 3 in Corte Madera, Calif. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow

By Claire Barber

The Reality of a Rapidly Warming World

ICN Sunday Morning

A construction worker cools off with water as a heatwave hits France in Nantes on June 19, 2025. Credit: Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images

New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’

By Bob Berwyn

A worker stripes an intersection on a hot afternoon in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 6. Credit: Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Pictures of trees in the halls of the COP30 venue aren’t helping much with the extreme heat. U.N. officials sent a sharp letter to Brazil, asking the host country to immediately address the concerns. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

Extreme Heat, Leaks and Security Issues Roil COP30

By Bob Berwyn

A construction worker ushers traffic on July 11, 2023, during a record-setting heat wave in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease

By Gina Jiménez, Public Health Watch

People try to stay cool on the sweltering streets of Manhattan as New York City experiences a heat wave on July 29. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

A man pushes a gurney covered with a body bag along a sidewalk

30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem

By Keerti Gopal

Fish swim over a reef affected by coral bleaching from extreme heat on May 8, 2024, in Trat, Thailand. Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

A microscopic view of a female Daphnia magna, or water flea, with a clutch of cloned eggs. Credit: Dieter Ebert/Bethesda/National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information

Heat Waves Are Changing Disease Dynamics in Unpredictable Ways, New Research Finds

By Liza Gross

Construction workers build a cinder block foundation for a new house on July 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

New Mexico Is the Latest State Developing Standards to Protect Workers in Extreme Heat

By Martha Pskowski

A vendor sells ice as people try to stay cool during a heatwave on June 19 in Newark, New Jersey. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New Jersey Is the Latest State to Consider Heat Protections for Workers

By Emilie Lounsberry

Three-year-old Layla glides down a slide at Kiwanis Park on a hot day in August in Tempe, Arizona. Credit: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

Finding a Fix for Playgrounds That Are Too Hot to Touch

By Wyatt Myskow

Layla Maria, de 3 años, se desliza por un tobogán en el parque Kiwanis un caluroso día de agosto en Tempe, Arizona. Crédito: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

En busca de soluciones para los parques infantiles donde el calor quema

By Wyatt Myskow

A man uses a spear to deter pink dolphins as they attempt to snatch fish from the fishermen's nets, often resulting in the damaging the nylon tools. Credit: Dado Galdieri/Hilaea Media

A River in Flux

By Daniel Grossman

The C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, Fla. Credit: Bay Pines VA Healthcare System

VA Medical Centers Vulnerable To Extreme Weather As Climate Warms

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers, The War Horse

Trabajadores agrícolas en un campo cerca de Bakersfield, California. Crédito: Citizen of the Planet/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Smoke rises from the Oak Fire near Mariposa, Calif. on July 24, 2022. The wildfire burned through several thousand acres while Californians dealt with record-setting temperatures. Credit: David McNew/AFP via Getty Images

Converging Climate Risks Interact to Cause More Harm, Hitting Disadvantaged Californians Hardest

By Liza Gross

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