

Rising heat
As workers sweat, pressure grows on employers to turn down the heat
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analysis As cities bake on a warmer planet, insurers cook up heatwave cover
By Laurie Goering | Mon, 5 Oct 2020 -
Heatwave Harry? As temps soar, naming the threat may save lives
By Laurie Goering | Tue, 4 Aug 2020 -
'Life or death': Baking U.S. cities legislate for air conditioning
By Carey L. Biron | Thu, 20 Aug 2020 -
Much of West Africa faces Sahara-level heat within a century
By Nellie Peyton | Fri, 30 Oct 2020 -
Hot but want to stop the virus? Japan keeps mask-wearing cool
By Beh Lih Yi | Wed, 26 Aug 2020 -
Rising heat and snow-bare peaks chill Nepal's mountain economy
By Aadesh Subedi | Tue, 9 Feb 2021 -
Eat or stay cool? Cities test ways to protect poor from heat
By Laurie Goering | Thu, 30 Jul 2020 -
U.S. tree-planting push to curb warming, boost jobs
By Carey L. Biron | Thu, 27 Aug 2020 -
Awnings to aircon: Heat threat drives innovation in pandemic year
By Laurie Goering | Fri, 12 Jun 2020 -
Efficient cooling seen as key to managing climate change risks
By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 17 Jul 2020 -
Ice age: Off-grid ways to turn down rising heat for the poor
By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 22 May 2020 -
Scarcity of shade hurts Indian street vendors' income, health
By Rina Chandran | Thu, 9 Jul 2020 -
Cooler, greener: Egyptian architects seek antidotes to rising heat
By Menna A. Farouk | Wed, 4 Mar 2020 -
Beat the heat? India struggles to keep cool during lockdown
By Annie Banerji | Tue, 12 May 2020 -
Life-threatening extreme heat set to trap millions indoors by 2060
By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 8 May 2020 -
It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record
By Annie Banerji | Tue, 7 Jan 2020 -
'A sly thief': Rising heat steals jobs and lives in eastern India
By Manipadma Jena | Mon, 25 Nov 2019 -
Climate change set to make extreme heat more common - and costly
By Laurie Goering | Wed, 25 Mar 2020 -
Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned
By Zoe Tabary | Wed, 12 Feb 2020 -
Planners urged to look beyond history to judge climate risks
By Megan Rowling | Wed, 18 Mar 2020 -
Extreme heat hitting rich and poor harder, climate index shows
By Megan Rowling | Wed, 4 Dec 2019 -
Aircon for all? Hotter world faces risk of 'cooling poverty'
By Laurie Goering | Tue, 10 Sep 2019 -
Baking cities advance 'slowly' in race against rising heat threat
By Laurie Goering | Fri, 15 Nov 2019 -
Europe's July heatwave 'extremely unlikely' without climate change
By Megan Rowling | Fri, 2 Aug 2019
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Red Cross warns of food crisis in N. Korea as crops fail in heat
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Rising temperatures will mean more deaths globally
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Too hot to handle? Expect more heat waves with climate change
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Rising temperatures to carry big price tag in steamy Sri Lanka
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Rising heat linked to suicide spikes in U.S. and Mexico
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Cities face big rise in heat, flood risks by 2050 - researchers
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Heatwave blankets Japan, kills 14 people over long weekend
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Over a billion people struggle to stay cool as Earth warms
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Workers in summer heat need far better protections
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Heatwave threats rarely an urban priority, even as risks rise
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Shinier cities - and fields - could cut heat risk: scientists
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Silent killer: Sweltering planet braces for deadly heat shocks
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None like it hot - warmer winters worry Arctic scientists
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Rural Kenyans beat rising heat with mud-brick homes
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Pakistan heatwave kills 65 people in Karachi - welfare group
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Hotter summer highs means cities face increasingly deadly risks
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Pakistan’s strong spring heat drives up water use, health risks
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Shivering in the tropics: Southeast Asia faces "cooling crisis"
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Ocean warming threatens to drown Costa Rica’s whale tourism
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As slums face heat extremes, “I feel really scared,” residents say
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LA makes plans for sudden shocks, long-term calamity
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With early warning, Karachi cools a heatwave threat
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For Algeria's struggling herders, "drought stops everything"
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Climate change harms health worldwide as millions swelter
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Frequency of excessive summertime heat seen rising across U.S.
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Portuguese protest at deadly forest fires, government pledges aid
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Qatar must protect workers from lethal heat, rights group says
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With Irma - and power cut - Miami gets taste of deadly heat
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Cooling vests aim to help migrant workers weather the Gulf's heat
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Sponges, forests and air corridors: how nature can cool cities
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Armed with wet sacks, India's poorest try to beat extreme heat
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In Canada, climate change could open new farmland to the plow
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On an overheating planet, parched nations look to the clouds
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Six ways to stay cool without air conditioning
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Human frontiers: How much heat can body and mind take?
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Extreme heat – an "unseen threat" – burns US urban poor
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Iceland reaps riches from warming oceans as fish swim north
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Heat and drought drive south India farmers from fields to cities
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Expect more 'Lucifer' heatwaves to scorch Europe, scientists say
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As heat rises, women risk death in South Asia
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Dubai street cleaners beat the heat with 'cooling collars'
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Urban trees save megacities millions
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Wildfire-hit Portugal declares public calamity as braces for more
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Much of South Asia could be too hot to live in by 2100
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Mongolia bans grain exports amid hottest temperatures in 56 years
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