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Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount

A new World Meteorological Organization report estimated 13,000 annual heat-related deaths across 17 countries in the region.

By Bob Berwyn

People carry their belongings as they evacuate due to flooding in Yaguachi, Ecuador, on Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
Special cameras helped scientists pinpoint when a combination of heat and drought conditions cause changes in individual oak leaves. Credit: Alyssa Kullberg

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

By Bob Berwyn

People spend time on Crissy Field Beach during warm weather in San Francisco on March 11. Credit: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave Descends on Already Parched Western U.S.

By Kiley Price

A trained team from the West Coast Large Whale Entanglement Response Program works to free an entangled gray whale off the coast of Orange County, Calif., in December 2017. Credit: West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Whale Entanglements in Fishing Gear Surge Off U.S. West Coast During Marine Heatwaves

By Teresa Tomassoni

A construction worker ushers traffic on July 11, 2023, during a record-setting heat wave in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Growing Threat to Heat-Exposed Workers: Chronic Kidney Disease

By Gina Jiménez, Public Health Watch

‘Millions of Avoidable Deaths’: Climate Change Health Harms Reach Unprecedented Levels

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 worker drinks water from a botijo, a Spanish traditional earthenware drinking jug, to fight the heat in the midst of a heat wave in Madrid on Aug. 9, 2023. Credit: Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images

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

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

A man tries to cool off with fire hydrant water in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan as extreme heat blankets New York City on July 25. Credit: Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images

Broiled by Heat Waves, Residents of the Concrete Jungle Suffer

By Lauren Dalban

Air conditioning units hang out the windows of a housing project during a summer heat wave in the Bronx borough of New York on July 11, 2024. Credit: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images

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

By Lauren Dalban

In Illinois prisons, the threat of heat is amplified by dirty or dangerous living conditions including little to no access to air conditioning, contaminated water and few real ways to cool down. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

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

By Siri Chilukuri

A farmer harvests cocoa beans from the fruit in Ghana on Nov. 21, 2024. Credit: Christina Peters/picture alliance via Getty Images

Weather Extremes Caused by Climate Change Are Driving Up Food Prices, a New Report Says

By Georgina Gustin

People try to stay cool during a heat wave on June 25 in New York City as temperatures hit the high 90s. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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

By Kiley Price

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

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

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

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