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Farmworkers have long faced dangers from laboring outside in sweltering heat. As climate change raises temperatures, heat illness could come for far more people.

An investigation found that inequality is fueling heat-related illnesses across the state, Fort Pierce is the hottest ZIP code in Florida, and the government and medical community are both not doing enough for what is referred to by farmworkers as “being caught by the bear.”

A new NPR probe found low-income areas in dozens of major U.S. cities are more likely to be hotter than wealthier ones, and people with severe mental illness are impacted by that increase in heat.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Forecasters are warning of scorching heat across a wide stretch of the U.S. South and Midwest, where the heat index will feel as...

In recognition of National Heatstroke Prevention Day, the Safe Kids Coalition of Southwest Florida partnered with first responders in Collier County to...

A report released this week predicts a lot more days of extreme heat - so much that they're being called "killer heat" days. We conclude our three-part...

Climate change is making the planet warmer, but a new report says there's something worse on the horizon: extreme heat.A study by the Union of Concerned…

If last month felt hotter than normal, there's a reason.

Florida teachers are eager to teach kids about sea-level rise, rising heat and other impacts of climate change, but many say it can be hard to find…

On a hot day in September, Charlene Jones celebrated her 61st birthday by herself.The former nursing-home cook made herself a birthday dinner of turkey…

Florida is hot and may be trending hotter: 2015, 2017 and the early part of 2018 all set temperature records.But federal law does not require air…

Global warming can feel like an overwhelming problem -- it is, after all, GLOBAL -- but many of the solutions already exist.That was the message from one…