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Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

A column highlighting climate-related studies, innovations, books, cultural events and other developments from the global warming frontier.

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In this picture taken on May 12, 2022, people drink water being distributed by volunteers along a street during a heatwave in Jacobabad, in the southern Sindh province. Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

In Jacobabad, One of the Hottest Cities on the Planet, a Heat Wave Is Pushing the Limits of Human Livability

By Zoha Tunio

Smoke pours out of towers of the Phillips 66 Bayway oil refinery along the New Jersey Turnpike in Linden, New Jersey, Dec. 11, 2019. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

In An Unusual Step, a Top Medical Journal Weighs in on Climate Change

By Victoria St. Martin

Two men sleep in a roadside bed during the heatwave in Kolkata, India on April 25, 2022. Maximum temperature was 38 degrees Celsius and minimum temperature in Kolkata was 28 degree Celsius according to an Indian Meteorological Department of Kolkata. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Warmer Nights Caused by Climate Change Take a Toll on Sleep

By Victoria St. Martin

Paint peels from the side of a home along 37th Avenue on Sunday, April 9, 2017, in Oakland, California. Credit: Aric Crabb/Bay Area News via Getty Images

Lead Poisonings of Children in Baltimore Are Down, but Lead Contamination Still Poses a Major Threat, a New Report Says

By Agya K. Aning

Commuters make their way along a street amid smoggy conditions early in the morning in Lahore, Pakistan on Dec. 17, 2021. Credit: Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images

Study Identifies Outdoor Air Pollution as the ‘Largest Existential Threat to Human and Planetary Health’

By Victoria St. Martin

A pregnant woman receives an exam from her doctor. Biomonitoring studies have measured at least 43 chemicals from diverse classes of chemical compounds in 99-100% of pregnant women in the United States. Credit: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick

By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Residential buildings stand on the city skyline on April 10, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies in Planning Adaptations

By Aydali Campa

A man throws water on his face to cool off as the temperature exceeds 46 degrees in Islamabad, Pakistan on April 27, 2022. Temperatures above the seasonal norm have adversely affected daily life in Pakistan. Credit: Muhammed Semih Ugurlu/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

An Unprecedented Heat Wave in India and Pakistan Is Putting the Lives of More Than a Billion People at Risk

By Zoha Tunio

Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John (right) speaks with EPA Administrator Michael Regan as he meets with members of the Concerned Citizens of St. John during his “Journey to Justice” tour. Photo courtesy of the EPA

EPA Opens Civil Rights Investigation Into Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

By Victoria St. Martin

Piles of coal ash are dumped next to coal ash pond in Dumfries, Virginia, on Jan. 7, 2016. which is filled with roughly 150 million gallon of contaminated water. Credit: Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Two US Electrical Grid Operators Claim That New Rules For Coal Ash Could Make Electricity Supplies Less Reliable

By James Bruggers

People with Valley Fever undergo treatment at San Joaquin Valley Pulmonary. Credit: Brian Vander Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Climate Change is Spreading a Debilitating Fungal Disease Throughout the West

By Anne Marshall-Chalmers

A family wears face masks as they walk through the smoke filled streets after the Thomas wildfire swept through Ventura, California on Dec. 6, 2017. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images

The ‘State of the Air’ in America Is Unhealthy and Getting Worse, Especially for People of Color

By Kristoffer Tigue

Traffic in the rain on Jan. 5, 2022 in New Delhi, India. Credit: Arvind Yadav/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

In South Asia, Vehicle Exhaust, Agricultural Burning and In-Home Cooking Produce Some of the Most Toxic Air in the World

By Zoha Tunio

Smoke from the East Troublesome Fire fills the sky above buildings in Estes Park on Oct. 22, 2020. Credit: Matthew Jonas/MediaNews Group/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images

Deadly ‘Smoke Waves’ From Wildfires Set to Soar

By Bob Berwyn

Dr. Mehmet Oz attends The 2022 Champions Of Jewish Values Gala at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 20, 2022 in New York City. A TV personality, Dr. Oz is running as a Republican for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania. Credit: Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images

As a Senate Candidate, Mehmet Oz Supports Fracking. But as a Celebrity Doctor, He Raised Significant Concerns

By Kiley Bense

Firefighters try to keep flames from burning home from spreading to a neighboring apartment complex as they battle the Camp Fire on November 9, 2018 in Paradise, California. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Shining a Light on Suicide Risk for Wildland Firefighters

By Liza Gross

Rescuers help a woman from a rescue boat after being evacuated from her apartment due to flood waters from the Little River as it crests from the rains caused by Hurricane Florence as it passed through the area on Sept. 18, 2018 in Spring Lake, North Carolina. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

North Carolina Hurricanes Linked to Increases in Gastrointestinal Illnesses in Marginalized Communities

By Leah Campbell

A soybean field lies in front of a natural gas drilling rig Sept. 8, 2012 in Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania. Credit: Getty Images

For the First Time, a Harvard Study Links Air Pollution From Fracking to Early Deaths Among Nearby Residents

By James Bruggers

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