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 ...

A record-setting marine heat wave stripped huge portions of Florida's coral reef of their colors in 2023, triggering the ninth and worst mass bleaching event in the Caribbean. Temperatures soared for ...

New research shows that marine heat waves can reshape ocean food webs, which in turn can slow the transport of carbon to the deep sea and hamper the ocean's ability to buffer against climate change.

Extreme heat is becoming more common, and experts say it can affect your health in short- and long-term ways. A new study suggests that two years of exposure to heat waves could prematurely age a ...

Every summer, heat waves affect millions of people around the world. The World Meteorological Organization reported that at least 10 countries experienced temperatures higher than 50ºC in 2023–2024.

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made ...

City officials, residents and researchers gathered at Columbus Park in the Austin neighborhood Tuesday night to remember the deadly heat wave 30 years ago — and to plan how to prevent future heat ...

Want to know the secret behind effortless, I woke up like this beachy waves? Its probably one of the methods below. Whether your tool of choice is a curling iron, flat iron, or simply a headband, you ...

Each fraction of a degree of warming will have a bigger impact than the last on lengthening heat waves, with the most extreme heat waves lengthening the most. Tropical regions will see larger changes ...

For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the boundaries of ...

The world's heat waves are getting longer and more intense, according to a new study from UCLA. The study was published on Monday in the journal of Nature Geoscience and was led by researchers from ...

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 ...