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New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

As the Trump administration is expected to finalize a standard to prevent heat-related injury and illness for workers by early next year, a new study shows that clear, comprehensive rules save lives.

By Liza Gross

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

Extreme Heat, Leaks and Security Issues Roil COP30

By Bob Berwyn

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease

By Gina Jiménez, Public Health Watch

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

By Keerti Gopal

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

Urban Heat and Air Pollution May Harm Developing Brains in the Womb, Study Suggests

By Jaylan Sims

Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat

By Emilie Lounsberry

Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows

By Bob Berwyn

World’s Largest Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers Are Responsible for About Half the Intensity of Recent Heat Waves, New Study Shows

By Dana Drugmand

Emissions are Sparking Increases in African Heat Waves in Unexpected Ways, New Study Finds

By Chad Small

El Paso’s Heat Is Killing in Record Numbers. It May Only Get Worse

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

RAGBRAI, the World’s Largest Recreational Bike Ride, Is Getting Hotter and Harder

By Anika Jane Beamer

Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer

By Lauren Dalban

New York Can’t Meet Its Ambitious Climate Targets. Maybe the Plan Was Doomed From the Start

By Lauren Dalban

As a Heat Wave Roiled Illinois, People Incarcerated Suffered The Most

By Siri Chilukuri

Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says

By Georgina Gustin

Weeks After a Heat Wave Baked the US, Democrats Push to Declare Heat a Major Disaster

By Kiley Price