For decades, health and weather experts have warned that the elderly and the youngest children were most vulnerable in heat waves. But this study looking at all deaths in Mexico from 1998 to ...

A new study finds that the Sonoran Desert’s iconic cactuses are suffering, not only from prolonged drought but also from ...

Human-caused climate change dialed up the thermostat and turbocharged the odds of this month's killer heat that ... United States, Mexico and Central America, a new flash study found.

Researchers are concerned the declines will lessen the scale of and in some cases possibly eliminate the large saguaro forests in Arizona.

Researchers at the University of Miami are providing improved insights into how extreme heat should be defined and addressed.

Scientists developed a rapid response system to assess whether climate change played a role in extreme weather like heat waves.

A heat wave brings familiar collective grumbling ... While the authors of the JAMA Psychiatry study couldn't conclude how extreme temperatures worsen mental health, they suggested sensible ...

Kumagai and colleagues focused their study on a period when one of the worst marine heat waves on record swept ... Francisco Bay Area south to the U.S.-Mexico border has fishing bans in place ...