Excessive Heat An Increasing Concern in Workers Comp: WCRI June 20, 2024 By Allen Laman With temperatures pushing above 90 degrees in parts of the Midwest and Northeast United States this week, many American workers...
Climate Destruction Fuels Growing Sector of the US Economy October 4, 2023 By Tim Quinson The cost of the climate crisis keeps going up. In terms of damage to the atmosphere and life on Earth,...
Startups Are Inventing Cooling Clothes for a Hotter Future September 5, 2023 By Coco Liu Every morning, thousands of construction workers in Qatar start their day by soaking their uniforms in water. The two-minute ritual...
U.S. Workers Exposed to Extreme Heat Have No Consistent Protection August 29, 2023 By GABE STERN, Associated Press/Report for America Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico...
Phoenix Hits Another 110-Degree Day and Wildfires Spread in California August 1, 2023 By Walter Berry PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix sizzled through its 31st consecutive day of at least 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) and other...
Feds Hope New Website Can Prevent Deaths from Worsening Heat July 28, 2022 By Seth Borenstein and Mary Katherine Wildeman WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government hopes a new website can help people and local governments beat the increasingly deadly...
London Airport Runway Meltdown Shows Airports Vulnerable to Climate Change July 22, 2022 By Jamie Freed The temporary disruption at London’s Luton Airport on Monday when soaring temperatures caused a small section of the asphalt to...
‘Nothing Else Here’: Why It’s So Hard For World to Quit Coal November 2, 2021 By Aniruddha Ghosal DHANBAD, India (AP) — Every day, Raju gets on his bicycle and unwillingly pedals the world a tiny bit closer...
Lake Tahoe Threatened by Massive Fire, More Ordered to Flee August 31, 2021 By Noah Berger SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) — Fire officials ordered more evacuations near Lake Tahoe and told other residents to be...
California Homeowners Are Doomed to Repeat Their Past Mistakes July 14, 2020 By Leslie Kaufman On Oct. 8, 2017, sparks from private electric equipment set fire to the dry hills of Northern California’s wine country,...