A brutal heat wave across the eastern United States trapped millions of people in sweltering air this week with record-high ...

Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially ...

Human-caused climate change tripled the number of estimated deaths in the recent European heat wave, according to a new ...

An art installation on the Near South Side will mark the 30th anniversary of the 1995 Chicago heat wave that killed hundreds ...

PARIS (Reuters) -France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between ...

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The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the ...

When temperatures rise in Chicago, for some, it brings back difficult memories and prompts a call for action to prevent ...

Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was ...

The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the ...