What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body
As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know.
By Keerti Gopal
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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
30 Years After Chicago’s Deadliest Heat Wave, Systemic Racism Is Still the Root Problem
By Keerti Gopal
Human-Caused Global Warming Spiked the Death Toll of Europe’s Early Summer Heatwave
By Bob Berwyn
The Heat That Seared New York City’s Primary Voters Is Just One Impact of Global Warming on Elections
By Chad Small
Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?
By Liza Gross
How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?
By Keerti Gopal
