Extreme Heat

The unseasonal heat in Brazil is bad news for the world’s supply of coffee and soybeans.

Amid soaring temperatures, Arizona has seen success with utility programs that incentivize people to turn down the AC when the power grid is stressed.

Anemones, sponges, and jellyfish are bleaching throughout the Everglades amid record temperatures. It’s a troubling sign for Florida Bay and beyond.

A new study found significant associations between both long- and short-term exposure to environmental heat during a pregnancy and severe maternal morbidity.

An idea from the past could provide a way to cope with extreme heat.

People laboring in brutal temperatures want OSHA to investigate conditions that leave them vulnerable to heat illness and exhaustion.

Even more areas will face such conditions as the planet continues to warm from fossil fuel combustion.   

Scientists have long warned that scorching summers — marked by heat waves, freak storms, and drought — could become the norm.

Scientists have long warned that scorching summers — marked by heat waves, freak storms, and drought — could become the norm.

“The system of death surveillance wasn’t designed for a climate-changed world.”