Click the downloadable graphic: Pregnancy Heat-Risk Days Added by Climate Change Extreme heat presents dangerous risks to global maternal health and birth outcomes. According to the U.S. Centers for ...
A couple uses an umbrella for shade at Gravely Point during a severe heat wave in Arlington, Virginia on June 22, 2025. The United States is experiencing its first significant heat wave of the year, ...
Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, driving up utility bills, straining ecosystems, and deepening inequality.
Heat waves are getting more dangerous with climate change — and we may still be underestimating them
The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming. Hundreds of ...
That included dangerous heat waves, which the WWA said were the world's deadliest extreme weather events in 2025. The ...
Deadly heatwaves, rising outbreaks of infectious diseases, and failing hospitals—the effects of climate change are among the greatest public health threats of the 21st century. Each year, extreme heat ...
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Devastating wildfires, flooding and extreme heat events took place over the past year, several resulting in mass fatalities, ...
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