Extreme Heat Kills More Americans Than Any Weather Disaster, but It Has Never Received a Federal Disaster Declaration

Tens of millions swelter as heat wave blasts US

Tens of millions of Americans sweltered under furnace-like temperatures Tuesday as central and eastern cities hunkered down for a heat wave set to last through the July 4 holiday weekend. Dozens of local temperature records could be broken, the National Weather Service warned, with temperatures in many places to surpass 38 degrees Celsius and high humidity pushing the heat index as high as 46 C. It comes as America prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary of independence, and as the United St

Heat wave prompts US electrical grid emergency

With 160 million people in 30 states under alert for extreme temperatures, the U.S. Department of Energy has declared an emergency as a heat wave bears down on a huge part of the nation’s electrical grid. U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued an Energy Emergency Alert, directing officials of the biggest electrical grid, PJM []...Click to read more

How Heat Affects the Brain

With more than 160 million people under extreme heat advisories as the Fourth of July weekend approaches, warnings about the dangers are clear. Heat is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States. It can also make you flushed, irritable and worse at math. A growing body of research has shown that our []

The Heat Is the Story—Climate Change Is the Cause

As extreme heat forces Fourth of July and America 250 celebrations to cancel or scale back across the country, the real story isn’t the weather—it’s the accelerating climate crisis reshaping American life. Joshua Scheer The climate crisis has become so normalized that much of the corporate media now reports its consequences while refusing to name []

Life-threatening temperatures are gripping US cities — here are some hacks to stay cool without AC 

Sweltering conditions are expected to last through the weekend