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[ad_1] WASHINGTON — During the summer, Levena Lindahl closes off entire rooms, covers windows with blackout curtains and budgets to manage the monthly cost of electricity...
[ad_1] PHOENIX — Mexican farm worker Avelino Vazquez Navarro didn’t have air conditioning in the motor home where he died last month in Washington state as...
[ad_1] ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A heat wave across southern Europe forced authorities in Greece to close the Acropolis Wednesday for several hours and two firefighters...
[ad_1] BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Spain sweated under its first official heatwave of the year with temperatures expected to reach 40 degrees Celcius (104 Fahrenheit) in...
[ad_1] DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Hundreds of Europeans touring the American West and adventurers from around the U.S. are still being drawn to Death Valley National...
[ad_1] LAS VEGAS — Roughly 130 million people were under threat over the weekend and into next week from a long-running heat wave that broke or...
[ad_1] PHOENIX — Ron Falk lost his right leg, had extensive skin grafting on the left one and is still recovering a year after collapsing on...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday proposed a new rule to address excessive heat in the workplace, warning — as tens of millions of...
[ad_1] KARACHI, Pakistan — A days-long intense heat wave has disrupted normal life in Pakistan, especially in its largest city, Karachi, where doctors treated thousands of...
[ad_1] As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical...
[ad_1] After days of intense flooding in Florida, that state and many others are bracing for an intense heat wave, while the Pacific Northwest will experience...
[ad_1] OKLAHOMA CITY — Forecasters warned of another day of heightened risk of dangerous tornadoes in the Midwest on Saturday and told people in South Texas...
[ad_1] HOUSTON — As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to thousands after deadly storms that left at least seven people dead,...
[ad_1] The levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces, according to the U.S. National...
[ad_1] MECCA, Calif. — When Limba Contreras moved to the desert community of Oasis, California, about 50 years ago, her family relied on a water cooler...
[ad_1] At least 123 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile, leading its president to declare two days of national mourning. The devastation comes...
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — Extreme heat and wildfire smoke are independently harmful to the human body, but together their impact on cardiovascular and respiratory systems is...
[ad_1] PORTLAND, Ore. — From June 25 to July 2, 2021, the Pacific Northwest experienced a record-breaking heat wave that sent the normally temperate region into...
[ad_1] CNN — This summer’s record-breaking marine heat wave may have been the “nail in the coffin” for an iconic species of coral that serves as...
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Undark Magazine. Back at the turn of the 21st century, valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the...