MANILA, Philippines — The Catholic Church’s prison ministry arm on Tuesday called on the government to expedite the decongestion of jails amid the increasing heat index across the country.

The heat index in the city is forecast to peak at 41 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, which is already near the danger level. INQ Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again. Your ...

People wait in the heat at a bus stop in Quezon ... of the year in most of the region's countries, has been reaching extreme temperatures – though not, at this stage, exceeding the all-time ...

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.

Magenta is the worst and deadliest of five heat threat categories, hitting everybody with what the agencies are calling “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief.” ...

Federal officials on Monday unveiled a set of tools aimed at helping protect people in the United States from the dangers of extreme heat. The resources, developed jointly by the National Oceanic ...

PARIS: Europe endured a record number of "extreme heat stress" days in 2023, two leading climate monitors said on Monday, underscoring the threat of increasingly deadly summers across the continent.

April signals the beginning of blistering heat for much of Texas. And while the summer heat is uncomfortable for many, it can be deadly for the people incarcerated in Texas’ prison system where ...

Magenta is the worst and deadliest of five heat threat categories, hitting everybody with what the agencies are calling “rare and/or long-duration extreme heat with little to no overnight relief.” ...

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“Millions of Americans are impacted by extreme heat waves, which are growing in intensity, frequency, and duration due to climate change,” said Don Graves, US Deputy Secretary of ...