The World Isn’t Ready for the Mental Health Toll of Extreme Heat A man walks with an umbrella to protect himself from the ...

Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world’s population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat ...

"I actually have mittens in my car so that when the steering wheel gets really hot, I put my mittens on, and that's how I drive," said Melissa Guardaro, an extreme-heat researcher at Arizona State ...

We found that wildfire smoke and extreme heat frequently co-occur in British Columbia, with all communities experiencing at least seven, and upwards of 65, days with simultaneous exposure to ...

As people flock to outdoor music venues and festivals across the country, sprawling heat domes and extreme heat could pull attention away from the artists onstage, and sweaty concertgoers may ...

Extreme heat is more than just an immediate health hazard—it may be silently accelerating the aging process, with long-term consequences for public health. New research my team and I published ...

As summers grow hotter every year and this summer's heat waves linger, doctors and medical experts warn Americans to keep an eye out for the dangers to the human body of extreme heat and scorching ...

As climate change intensifies extreme heat around the globe, policymakers must take steps to develop heat standards for children and support infrastructure improvements to ensure schools ...

New research my team and I published in the journal Science Advances suggests that long-term exposure to extreme heat may speed up biological aging at the molecular level, raising concerns about ...

Extreme heat is taking a silent toll at the cellular and the molecular level. Longer periods of extreme heat has been found to accelerate biological age in older adults by up to two years ...

Extreme heat (and extreme cold) can significantly alter the effectiveness of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. Some medications can tolerate temperatures up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 ...

Extreme heat killed more Americans in 2023 than any other year over nearly a quarter century of records, according to research published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.