However, the report could be under-counting heat waves in Africa and South America, since they often go unreported, said Clair Barnes, a climate scientist at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College ...

What impact can more intense heat waves have on Africa and its infrastructure? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as an international team of ...

Earlier this year, a spate of deaths in Florida caused by Vibrio vulnificus, known as the flesh-eating bacteria, made ...

Extreme heat can trigger excessive sweating that overwhelms the body’s natural cooling system, potentially leading to heat cramps, heat stroke and even death in severe, untreated cases. An ...

(CNN) — For the first time, scientists have quantified the causal links between worsening heat waves and global warming pollution from individual fossil fuel and cement companies, pushing the ...