The world has endured a “decade of deadly heat”, with 2024 capping 10 years of unprecedented temperatures, the UN has warned. In his new year message, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres ...

An uncompensable heat threshold is when it gets so hot that our bodies can no longer cool down, even by sweating. Internal temperature then rises uncontrollably, which can quickly become very ...

Officials say methods of counting heat-related deaths in that time have not changed enough to account for the rise in that time. Deadly heat: Phoenix and Maricopa County on track to count fewer ...

Months after a 36-year-old trash collector died on the job, state inspectors found that Baltimore's Department of Public ...

While public perception often considers heat waves more deadly statistics reveal that cold weather might be more lethal in many regions. According to research winter temperatures can result in ...

The nation’s two fastest-warming cities may soon be required by Nevada law to better protect residents from deadly heat in future plans. More than a dozen organizations and Nevada residents ...

A new study is predicting estuaries along the East Coast of the U.S. will experience marine heat wave conditions up to a third of the year by the end of the century.