The Hotter It Gets, the Harder It Is to Find Your Words
Heat waves don’t just make you sweat — they can also mess with your brain. It’s been established that hot weather can result in lower scores on math tests and…
10 Scorching Genre Movies for Summer’s First Heat Wave
The Core – Trailer Kind of an inverse Sunshine, this goofy 2003 sci-fi tale imagines that the Earth’s molten core has stopped spinning, a situation that requires a ragtag team…
How to Build a Heat-Resilient City
This story is co-published with Grist, and is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how—and where—we live. Totally Killer Exclusive Clip Off…
Excessive Heat and Rainfall Combos Will Be Practically Everywhere If Emissions Keep Rising, Study Says
The climate crisis is going to expose more of the world to both hotter weather and heavy rainfall. This could create dangerous flood conditions new research has found. A study…
Temperature-Related Deaths in the US Could Jump Fivefold by 2100, Study Finds
Hot weather is poised to kill many more Americans every year if current trends hold, recent research suggests. It estimates that the U.S. could see 200,000 temperature-related deaths annually by…
Texas Keeps Setting Power Use Records as Summer Heat Rages
The temperatures have been too damn high in Texas this summer, prompting households and businesses to crank up their air conditioning and break energy usage records again and again. The…
Hottest July on Record Kills Hundreds of Cows
Alarming heat and humidity killed hundreds of cows in Iowa last month. These losses have further decreased the size of the overall U.S. cattle herd, which has shrunk to a…
80 Percent of People Around the World Experienced Climate Change-Induced Heat in July
July is supposed to be a hot summer month for the northern hemisphere, but last month was especially hot even for mid-summer. According to a new report released by science…
41 Million Americans Are Simmering on Urban Heat Islands
Try walking outside on a midsummer day in New York City. You’re sweating buckets. You can smell garbage rotting by the side of the road. The sunlight and heat seem…
Heat Waves and Cold Snaps Linked to More Fatal Heart Attacks, Study Finds
The global rise in extreme weather is likely to bring along more fatal heart attacks, new research this week suggests. The study found that exposure to heat waves and cold…