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Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

Excessive heat and more frequent medical incidents in Southern college football stadiums could be a warning sign for universities across the country.

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

The sun bears down on the Walk of Champions outside Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/Inside Climate News
People try to stay cool on the sweltering streets of Manhattan as New York City experiences a heat wave on July 29. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal

Madrid’s Emergency Medical Service workers transfer a prisoner from Valdemoro prison to Infanta Elena Hospital after he suffered heat stroke amid a heat wave in Spain. Credit: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Bob Berwyn

A fishing vendor uses an umbrella to protect herself from the midday sun during a heat wave in St. Louis, Senegal. Credit: Lucia Weiß/picture alliance via Getty Images

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

By Chad Small

A vendor sells bottled water while shading himself with an umbrella at the exit of the Paso del Norte International Bridge during triple-digit temperatures in El Paso on Aug. 7.

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

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Paul Ratje

Cyclists stop at a water station along the RAGBRAI route in Iowa. Credit: Len Radin/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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

By Anika Jane Beamer

People hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun during a heatwave in Paris on June 30. Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

Human-Caused Global Warming Spiked the Death Toll of Europe’s Early Summer Heatwave

By Bob Berwyn

A road worker drinks water at a construction site in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?

By Liza Gross

A man cools off in the shade at Daley Plaza as temperatures climbed into the mid-90s on June 23 in Chicago. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

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

By Keerti Gopal

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

A child pours water over himself to cool off during a heat wave at a cattle market in Karachi on May 31. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Aman Azhar

A worker adjusts his helmet on a construction site under the sun in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on July 3, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise

By Liza Gross

Paramedics treat a person who fainted in front of the Supreme Court on June 20, 2024, as temperatures reached more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Americans Are Increasingly Aware That Climate Change Is Harming Their Health

By Keerti Gopal

A pharmacist retrieves a package of antidepressant medication from a pharmacy drawer in Berlin. Credit: Monika Skolimowska/picture alliance via Getty Images

Psychotropic Medications and High Heat Don’t Mix

By Nina Dietz

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Austun Wilde rests with her two dogs at a cooling center in the Oregon Convention Center on June 27, 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Record breaking temperatures lingered over the Northwest during a historic heatwave this weekend. Credit: Nathan Howard/Getty Images

Global Warming Cauldron Boils Over in the Northwest in One of the Most Intense Heat Waves on Record Worldwide

By Judy Fahys, Bob Berwyn

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