As a woman’s exposure to heat increases — in other words, as she endures more hot days in heat storms or heat waves, or more ...

In the ramp-up to the United Nations annual climate change conference in November, alarming and under-reported statistics on ...

For the reader who’s pressed for time, here are the key findings from our investigation into a growing peril for pregnancies: ...

Cooling a home overnight may not be enough to protect older adults from the physiological effects of repeated daytime indoor overheating during a multiday heat wave, according to new research from the ...

A study conducted in Brazil by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) found that each additional day spent under a ...

Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll ...

Climate change, in particular, was responsible for two-thirds of the deaths, the report in the British Medical Journal said ...

Summer heat is about to go from bad to worse, as multiple regions around the world face another round of record-breaking temperatures. The heat will be fueled by unusually hot ocean waters and El Niño ...

A new study by researchers at Montana State University has found that heat waves substantially accelerate the melting rate of ...

The National Weather Service says that although the heat wave will not likely produce record temperatures, it will still be very dangerous.