Many regions across the United States experienced "record-breaking high temperatures" in 2023 due to extreme heat, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Emergency room ...
On Earth Day, the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention teamed up to announce a new heat risk system to better communicate the severity of hot weather.
An online tool launched Monday by the Biden administration aims to keep people safe from extreme heat by showing them where in the lower 48 states temperatures are high enough to harm their health.
As carbon emissions rise, communities across the globe are dealing with increasingly severe and frequent bouts of extreme temperatures. Scientists have observed an eightfold increase in record ...
Heat is the number one weather-related killer. Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to ...
Tracking extreme heat and understanding its health risks will be easier this summer with new experimental online tools unveiled Monday by two federal agencies. The HeatRisk Forecast Tool ...
Extreme heat has a way of exposing society’s vulnerabilities. And as extreme heat events become more frequent in the U.S., data shows that the poorest Americans will be most at risk. People ...
Some U.S. regions saw the highest rate of heat-related ER visits since 2018. Heat-related emergency room visits increased in 2023 in the U.S. compared to previous years, according to new federal data.
As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across the ...
In less than two weeks, Indians will vote in a sprawling seven-phase Lok Sabha election that starts on April 19 and ends on June 1. While general elections have always been held in summer, this ...
Kareen Fahim, Ali Al-Mujahed and Lorenzo Tugnoli traveled through parts of Hodeida province in northwestern Yemen in August to report on the convergence of extreme heat and hunger. Published Oct ...