The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming. Hundreds of ...

A brutal heat wave across the eastern United States trapped millions of people in sweltering air this week with record-high temperatures. A cold front brought cooler weather to the Northeast on ...

Just in time for summer, here comes the heat. "A dangerous, widespread heat wave will bake the central and eastern U.S., bringing the hottest temperatures of the year and uncomfortably muggy air to ...

When Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana with catastrophic flooding and powerful winds in August 2021, more than 1 million people lost power. Then came the heat wave. Temperatures rose above 90 degrees ...

New York City and the surrounding area saw the first heat wave of 2025 this week, as summer officially begins. Temperatures soared into the 90s Sunday and stayed there for days. Here's everything to ...

Mr. Klinenberg is a sociologist and the author of “Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago.” This article was first published on Sept. 7, 2024. Do you remember the heat dome that settled ...

Ms. Gerstein is the director of the Labor Initiative at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. She spent more than 17 years enforcing labor laws in New York ...