Phoenix gets national coverage for dangerous heat, but rising temperatures force New York to confront past and present ...

Klinenberg is a sociologist and the author of “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster ... to help persuade lawmakers to invest billions in new infrastructure, including renewable energy ...

In addition to exacerbating financial burdens, extreme heat can complicate mobility issues for older people facing hunger.

Social isolation: Volunteers bringing food to homebound people can help to break up the social isolation that they face. For ...

Extreme heat poses a major threat to people around the world, especially in urban areas, particularly for isolated people.

While Los Angeles suffers from a late summer heat wave, New York is also turning up the temperature thanks to the current ...

Despite many of the signs of fall arriving, Maine will see another blast of heat and humidity next week as summer refuses to ...

Map showing forecast high temperatures across the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys and Mid-Atlantic on Aug. 28. Image: Weatherbell.com ...

Solutions to the problem of climate change have never been more clear. But the scale of the problem keeps getting bigger.

A heat wave was expected to bring record-high temperatures to the midwestern United States this week before spreading to the East Coast, forecasters said. At the same time, a bout of severe ...

For the many New Yorkers who don’t have central air conditioning or any sort of A/C units in their homes, what are the ...