The researchers quantified the heat’s effects by comparing people’s biological age to their chronological age. Biological age ...

Older adults are highly vulnerable to extreme heat, yet many remain unprepared. Research highlights risks and the need for ...

Older adults often don't realize how vulnerable they are to extreme heat and most aren't prepared for long periods of hot ...

City planners say the day when temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, or 50 Celsius, could stall the French capital ...

Over the next 25 years, millions of Americans living in disadvantaged (Black and Brown) communities will confront significant ...

This summer has been one of the hottest on record in Toronto, with six heat waves recorded already, but climatologists have a ...

In the mid-latitudes by 2050, we’ll see the number of dangerous heat days double in the most likely future scenario—even under modest greenhouse gas emissions that would meet the Paris Climate ...

Wildfires, failed crops and buckled train tracks show how England’s rising temperatures are testing the country’s ability to ...

Now, a new report from UNICEF estimates that nearly all the world’s children — more than 2 billion — will be exposed to high heat-wave frequency by 2050. That is about 1.5 billion more ...

Extreme heat waves such as the one that hit the Pacific Northwest last year may be 20 times more likely to occur if carbon emissions are not reduced.

The probability of record-shattering heat waves is increasing due to climate change, according to scientists who are measuring temperature predictions in a new way. Researchers that looked into ...