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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

An Unusual Heat Wave Strains the World’s Most Populous Country

By Kiley Price

As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods

By Bob Berwyn

‘Heat Batteries’ Leave Some City Blocks Scorched

By Lauren Dalban

How Forests Start to Fail, One Leaf at a Time

By Bob Berwyn

A New Wine Label Promotes Workers’ Rights

By Liza Gross

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

By Kiley Price

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

By Teresa Tomassoni

Accelerated Global Warming Could Lock Earth Into a Hothouse Future

By Bob Berwyn

Patagonia Is Burning

By Anika Jane Beamer

A California Climate Expert Is Working to Restore Climate Risk Scores Deleted by Zillow

By Claire Barber

New Climate Reports Show ‘Unprecedented Run of Global Heat’

By Bob Berwyn

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

Extreme Heat, Leaks and Security Issues Roil COP30

By Bob Berwyn

Scorching Saturdays: The Rising Heat Threat Inside Football Stadiums

By Olivia McMurrey, Lee Hedgepeth

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

What Extreme Heat Is Doing to Your Body

By Keerti Gopal