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Extreme heat events increasingly pose significant global health risks, especially in vulnerable and under-resourced regions.

Dr. Ward studies how extreme heat is reshaping lives and livelihoods in communities across the United States. Just five days into summer, much of the United States is gripped by a record-breaking ...

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The record-breaking heat wave that hit Wisconsin over the weekend caused dozens of road closures as pavement buckled in the extreme heat statewide. There were at least 53 pavement buckles across ...

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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.

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