Heat Waves

The climate heated up, but clean energy did, too.

Across the U.S., significantly more people die from heat each year than from any other weather-related event. Many of these deaths are concentrated in and around Phoenix.

The unprecedented high temperatures this summer have been devastating to the nation’s elderly population and have also altered Japan’s culture in unexpected ways. 

This burning summer is taking us out of human time.

The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around the world.

The state endures high temperatures, but not usually so early in the summer, or for so long. Something is different.

Is this the end of another summer, or the end of summer as we know it?

Boris Johnson’s probable successor is offering little comfort as a recession looms.

In hospitals, in schools, and on the streets, high temperatures have transformed routines and made daylight dangerous.

A small, willfully misunderstood earmark in the Build Back Better Act is in fact a response to a mortal threat.

Some agencies are shirking—even as the heat keeps dialling up.

Climate destruction is now moving much faster than human institutions.

Rising air temperatures remind us that our bodies have real limits.

The city in summer floated in a daze that moved otherwise sensible people to repeat endlessly the brainless greeting “Hot enough for ya? Ha-ha!”