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 risks—female cross-country ...
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Jul 19, 2022
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There is a downward spiral of extreme weather and pollution from wildfires, domestic heating and energy production in the New York and New Jersey area, according to a new study by CUNY SPH Professors Ilias Kavouras and Glen ...
Environment
Jun 30, 2022
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World leaders have committed to limiting Earth's rising temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
Environment
Nov 11, 2021
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Working construction under the merciless Arizona sun, Eleazar Castellanos knew the signs that heat exhaustion was settling in.
Environment
Oct 21, 2021
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Inside one of Vancouver's 25 air-conditioned cooling centers on Wednesday, visitors quietly read books or worked on laptops as the death toll in Canada's British Columbia province rose into the hundreds from a record-smashing ...
Environment
Jul 1, 2021
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Owners of bulldogs, French bulldogs and pugs are highly likely to want to own their breed again in the future, and to recommend their breed to other owners, according to a study published August 26, 2020 in the open-access ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2020
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The most common cause of potentially-fatal heatstroke in dogs is being exercised by their owners, the largest study of its kind has found.
Veterinary medicine
Aug 4, 2020
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The heat is on. And for most of America it'll stay on through the rest of the month and maybe longer, meteorologists say.
Environment
Jul 7, 2020
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Forecasters are warning of scorching heat across a wide stretch of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index will feel as high as 117 degrees (47 Celsius) in some spots.
Environment
Aug 12, 2019
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Public housing officials in Chicago were planning wellbeing checks on residents as the heat and humidity are expected to mount to dangerous levels as part of a wave of sweltering weather covering a substantial portion of ...
Environment
Jul 18, 2019
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