Heat waves — prolonged periods of abnormally hot weather — influence egg prices, energy bills and even public transit. And they’re becoming more common as temperatures increase. In a new study, UIC ...

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 ...

A long stretch of humid heat followed by intense thunderstorms is a weather pattern historically seen mostly in and around ...

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 ...

(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 ...