Right now, if you're lucky enough to have it at home, it's likely that you're running your air conditioner daily. But how do you keep a home cool in a power outage? First things first, don't panic!

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — ...

Georgia is bracing for extreme heat next week, with heat indices expected to exceed 110°F in several cities including Atlanta, Athens, Columbus, and Macon. Officials warn of life-threatening ...

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Another heat wave—this one steeped in humid air, including from a Midwestern phenomenon called corn sweat—is blanketing the eastern half of the U.S. this week in July. Tens of millions of people are ...

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