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 ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. By 2050, over 5 billion people — probably more than half the planet’s ...
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Twenty million people dead in a heatwave, some poached alive in a lake they hoped to cool off in. It is, for now, science ...
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 ...
The death of a toddler from extreme heat highlighted the risk of climate-related illnesses across Malaysia. The same week, Vietnam declared a state of emergency after abnormally high temperatures ...
Hena Khan, a ninth-grade student in Dhaka, Bangladesh, has struggled to focus on her studies this week as temperatures surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the capital city.
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Annie Gowen, Niko Kommenda, Anant Gupta and Atul Loke traversed Kolkata ...
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