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A woman walks along a flooded street on Nov. 2 in Valencia, Spain, after heavy rain hit large parts of the country. Scientists attributed the unprecedented flooding event to the rise in global average temperatures. Credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

What the Earth’s Recent Heat Uptick Could Mean for the Climate Fight

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

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

Hospital staff pour water on a patient who is suffering from heatstroke on May 30 in Varanasi, India. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Health Risks Due to Climate Change Are Rising Dangerously, Lancet Report Concludes

By Marianne Lavelle

The Conquistador Apartments in Brownsville has central air and shaded walkways. Still, the apartment occupied by Joaquin Galvan, 82, his 78-year-old sister and his 60-year old daughter grew hot enough to put them at grave risk, given their chronic medical conditions.

Chronic Health Problems Amplify Heat Risk in the Rio Grande Valley

Story by Martha Pskowski, photos by Chris Lee

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

Three-year-old Layla glides down a slide at Kiwanis Park on a hot day in August in Tempe, Arizona. Credit: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

Finding a Fix for Playgrounds That Are Too Hot to Touch

By Wyatt Myskow

Layla Maria, de 3 años, se desliza por un tobogán en el parque Kiwanis un caluroso día de agosto en Tempe, Arizona. Crédito: Kevin Hurley/Inside Climate News

En busca de soluciones para los parques infantiles donde el calor quema

By Wyatt Myskow

A Walk in the Woods with My Brain on Fire: Summer

Text and photos by David Sassoon

As drivers enter Purcellville, Virginia, they are reminded via road signs that farms in the area are under drought watch on Sept. 7, 2023. Credit: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images

A Combination of Heat and Drought Walloped Virginia Vegetable Farmers

By Sean Sublette

University of Maryland graduate research assistants work on an elastocaloric cooling system prototype at the the school’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering. Credit: Courtesy of CEEE

University of Maryland Researchers Are Playing a Major Role in the Future of Climate-Friendly Air Conditioning

By Hannah Marszalek

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

Robert Shipp, 75, of Bastrop, sweats while receiving treatment from Austin-Travis County EMS first responders inside an ambulance during a 102 degree day in Del Valle, Texas, on July 7, 2023. According to the EMS crew, he passed out while searching for car parts under the hot sun. Credit: Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune

Texas Likely Undercounting Heat-Related Deaths

By Yuriko Schumacher, Emily Foxhall, Alejandra Martinez, Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

One animal control program manager estimates that there are around 180,000 unhoused dogs on the reservation. Credit: iStock/Getty Images Plus via Grist

Rez Dogs Are Feeling the Heat From Climate Change

By Taylar Dawn Stagner, Grist

From Heat Waves to Hurricanes, Climate Hazards Often Hit Renters the Hardest

By Kiley Price

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

The need for air conditioning in schools is overwhelming. One report shows that 36,000 schools nationwide don’t have adequate HVAC systems. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Is Making Schools Hotter—and Learning Harder

By Jessica Kutz, The 19th

Heat affects corals by breaking down their relationship with the microscopic algae living inside them. When waters are too warm the corals expel the algae and turn white, a process called bleaching. Credit: Katey Lesneski/NOAA

For Florida Corals, Unprecedented Marine Heat Prompts New Restoration Strategy—On Shore

By Amy Green

At the Olympics, Heat Can Raise the Danger Bar of Competitions

By Kiley Price

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