The world may be raising a generation of children whose early learning could face lasting setbacks, and the culprit isn’t inadequate schools or malnutrition alone. It’s heat. A sweeping analysis of ...

The arrival of summer should mean more outdoor playtime for children, but the lessons of last summer warn of a different experience. Pediatricians see that as climate change leads to higher ...

The dangers of heat and humidity are so well known it’s become cliche to mention them. But the impacts can extend farther than even scientists and doctors realized. In a paper published in Science ...

Climate change-including high temperatures and heat waves-has been shown to pose serious risks to the environment, food systems, and human health, but new research finds that it may also lead to ...

Extreme heat is the deadliest weather-related hazard in the U.S., the CDC says. The extreme heat forecast across much of the United States this week is a particular health danger for kids, who are ...

As another record-breaking hot summer looms, we need to focus on protecting the people who will be most vulnerable to extreme temperatures, including kids, outdoor workers, older adults, people ...

Young children really struggle in the heat. Their bodies are too small to cool down by sweating, like adults. And they're wholly reliant on grown-ups to find any kind of relief, be it air conditioning ...

Individuals living in urban cities are experiencing the combined effect of increasing temperatures and poor air quality, often referred to as the urban heat dome. Pregnant mothers and their unborn ...