Heat Stress

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

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

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

By Bob Berwyn

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

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

By Lauren Dalban

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

By Kiley Price

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

How Do You Escape a Heat Wave When You Have Nowhere to Go?

By Keerti Gopal

Amid Brutal Heat Wave, Officials Stress Health Risks of Hot Nights

By Kiley Price

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

Two Suns, One City: Karachi’s Dueling Realities in a Warming World

By Aman Azhar

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

By Martha Pskowski

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

The Sunbelt’s Growing Population Faces Increasing Climate Hazards

By Wyatt Myskow