heat deaths

World Health Organization Must Prioritize Workers, Experts Say 

After Trump stopped funding the WHO, the agency retreated even more from occupational safety and health programs, putting millions of workers at risk as the planet warms, advocates contend. They hope its leaders change that when they meet next week.

By Liza Gross

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

New Analysis Provides More Evidence That Heat Standards Save Lives

By Liza Gross

Texas Workers Keep Dying in the Heat

By Martha Pskowski, Keerti Gopal

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

By Bob Berwyn

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

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

By Siri Chilukuri

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

Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?

By Liza Gross

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

Invisible Deaths: As Climate Disasters Kill in Pakistan, the True Scale Is Unknown

By Keerti Gopal

Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise

By Liza Gross

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health

By Keerti Gopal

Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People

By Humberto Basilio

Psychotropic Medications and High Heat Don’t Mix

By Nina Dietz

New Report Shows How Human-Caused Warming Intensified the 10 Deadliest Climate Disasters Since 2004

By Bob Berwyn

Health Risks Due to Climate Change Are Rising Dangerously, Lancet Report Concludes

By Marianne Lavelle