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O n a long stretch of County Road 106 East, somewhere near the border of Texas and Oklahoma, three conspicuously souped-up trucks pull off to the…

Millions Swelter Under Relentless Heat Dome Smothering Eastern U.S.High humidity and low overnight temperatures will put tens of millions of people under heat alerts over the…

‘Corn Sweat’ Is Making This Heat Wave Even WorseHumid heat is blanketing the eastern U.S. this week, exacerbated by “corn sweat” in the MidwestBy Andrea Thompson…

Workers Have Died in Extreme Heat as OSHA Has Debated ProtectionsThe June heat dome contributed to the deaths of at least three people. They have died…

To Save Patients from Extreme Heat, a Hospital Is Turning to AIAI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about…

Police investigating two deaths in Catalan wildfireSam JonesOfficers from Catalonia’s regional police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, are investigating the deaths of the two men whose bodies…

French prime minister attends crisis meeting over heatwaveAngelique ChrisafisThe French prime minister François Bayrou, who attended a government crisis meeting over the heatwave, was asked about…

The US is in a record-breaking heatwave, with tens of millions people on alert. A persistent heat dome is blanketing much of the midwest and spanning…

At an Oval Office press conference last month, Donald Trump described present-day South Africa as “the opposite of apartheid”—a phrase so perfectly weird that the man…

Britain’s four-day heatwave – made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis – is expected to claim about 600 lives. Researchers say high temperatures from…