Every now and then you come across a piece of evidence that feels strong enough to cut through the noise and change minds.

Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits national news, health stories, explainers and more. The extreme heat that has baked much of the central United ...

A heat dome is trapping over 90 million Americans in extreme temperatures this week with the National Weather Service issuing heat alerts from Nebraska to Florida. Dangerous heat threatens to bake ...

Extreme heat is a killer and its impact is becoming far, far deadlier as the human-caused climate crisis supercharges temperatures, according to a new study, which estimates global warming tripled the ...

The heat index, also known as the apparent temperature, is what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air temperature. The index offers important ...

Still, not all U.S. cities follow the same rhythm. Some slip into the cold quickly and take longer to rebound in spring, while a few spots can see 80-degree days in every month, even if their average ...

But unlike a heat dome, it’s largely stationary. This, in turn, alters jet stream patterns like in the 30-day pattern chart above. We can see the evolution of temperature patterns since mid-July as ...

Last summer, the United States took a crucial step towards protecting millions of workers across the country from the impacts of extreme heat on the job. In July 2024, the Occupational Safety and ...

Florida faces a dangerous heat wave this week, with a Heat Advisory issued for Central Florida. Temperatures could reach the upper 90s with heat indices up to 112°. Cooling stations are open in Orange ...