On the morning of Dec. 21, 2019, then-Chicago Bulls head coach Jim Boylen gathered his staff for a routine meeting. His 12-19 team was in dire need of spacing. The franchise’s minor-league affiliate ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Pacific Northwest was in the throes of a record-shattering heat wave last summer when a woman in her 70s was wheeled into an emergency room with symptoms of a ...

Last summer’s continuous scorching temperatures killed 20 people in Spokane County, more than the previous eight years combined, according to county officials. “It just really struck us,” said Brian ...

This story is part of Record High, a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live. On an early August morning in 2021, a family — two parents in their 30s and 40s, ...

Outside a 100-year-old house on the edge of the Peak District in northern England, a heat pump’s fan blades are swiftly spinning. They’re drawing outdoor air over coils of refrigerant, harvesting ...

Although the large majority of climate scientists hold firmly to the belief that the climate is heating up at an unsustainable rate, an undetermined segment of the population is convinced that global ...

At least 50 high school football players in the U.S. have died from heat stroke after falling ill on the field in the past 25 years. And high school athletes in other sports are not immune from the ...