Think you know how to beat the heat? Turns out, some of our most instinctive cooling strategies might actually be making ...

In the decade since the Paris climate agreement was hammered out, countries have made only halting efforts toward meeting the accord’s goal of limiting global warming. But even that modest progress ...

Heat waves have been the story of the summer in Massachusetts, and it's not letting up anytime soon with temperatures expected to hit the mid-90s this week. We expect high temperatures between 90 to ...

The 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest that overwhelmed emergency rooms and left hundreds dead. The 2022 heat wave in India that devastated the wheat harvest. The deadly heat waves in France in ...

As the frequency and intensity of heat waves increase across the U.S., a similar but more striking phenomenon is occurring in American rivers. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Extreme heat can trigger excessive sweating that overwhelms the body’s natural cooling system, potentially leading to heat cramps, heat stroke and even death in severe, untreated cases. An ...

The study — published in Nature — comes as climate change activists are increasingly turning to courts to argue that fossil fuel companies are making climate change worse. Scientists have found more ...

From Toronto to Minneapolis, Chicago to Omaha many places in North America are seeing a surge in summer heat well into fall. But one of the drivers is a weather phenomenon occurring thousands of miles ...

As heat waves batter Europe, the need (or not) for air-conditioning has become part of the political tug of war in France between the right and the left. By Aurelien Breeden and Josh Holder Aurelien ...

Australia has always had heat waves. But this week's heat wave in southeastern Australia is something else. Temperatures in some inland towns in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria were up ...