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People vote on the New York City mayoral primary election at Louis D. Brandeis High School day in Manhattan on June 24. Credit: Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images

The Heat That Seared New York City’s Primary Voters Is Just One Impact of Global Warming on Elections

By Chad Small

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

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

By Kiley Price

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

Fish swim over a reef affected by coral bleaching from extreme heat on May 8, 2024, in Trat, Thailand. Credit: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

Some Hopeful News About the Future of the World’s Corals

Interview by Aynsley O’Neill, “Living on Earth”

A microscopic view of a female Daphnia magna, or water flea, with a clutch of cloned eggs. Credit: Dieter Ebert/Bethesda/National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information

Heat Waves Are Changing Disease Dynamics in Unpredictable Ways, New Research Finds

By Liza Gross

Construction workers build a cinder block foundation for a new house on July 2, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

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

By Martha Pskowski

A construction worker takes a sip of water during a heat wave while repairing a road that was damaged from the heat in Houston, Texas on June 27, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Republicans Attack Rules Designed to Keep Workers Safe From Heat

By Liza Gross

A swamp cooler is attached to a house in Denver, Colo. Credit: Cyrus McCrimmon/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Swamp Coolers’ Ability to Beat the Heat is Evaporating in Record Southwestern Temperatures

By Tina Deines

From Snow to Heat, Extreme Weather Events Pose Outsized Risks for Food Delivery Workers

By Kiley Price

To Combat Phoenix’s Extreme Heat, a New Program Provides Sustainable Shade

By Wyatt Myskow

A construction crew works on a train station during a hot day in Yucatán, Mexico on Aug. 31, 2023. Credit: Rodrigo Oropeza/AFP via Getty Images

Heat Is Claiming Mexico’s Young People

By Humberto Basilio

Internally displaced Somali women receive food-aid rations at a distribution center in Mogadishu, Somalia on July 26, 2011. The 2011 drought in Somalia killed at least 258,000 people, making it the deadliest single climate event in the official global record. Credit: Abdurashid Abdulle/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Bob Berwyn

Western monarchs feed on Pacific aster nectar while overwintering in the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Credit: Barry Bergman

Record-Breaking Heat Waves Add to Risks for Western Monarchs

By Liza Gross

A member of the Coral Restoration Foundation brings up threatened coral transplants from the Florida Keys waters for safe keeping on land during a marine heatwave on July 24, 2023 near Islamorada, Florida. Credit: Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

New Federal Report Details More of 2023’s Extreme Climate Conditions

By Bob Berwyn

Tennessee renters are largely left responsible for window units to keep their homes cool if a landlord doesn't provide one. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Slow Wheels of Policy Leave Low-Income Residents of Nashville Feeling Brunt of Warming Climate

By Jonmaesha Beltran

Workers remove an AC unit from a mobile home in order to tow it out of Congress Mobile Home Park in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 29, 2022. Credit: Evan L'Roy/The Texas Tribune

Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

By Martha Pskowski, Jenaye Johnson

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