In the wake of the Northern hemisphere’s hottest summer on record, Cruz Salucio, a longtime farmworker and current educator with the Fair Food Program, recalled the painful effects of heat stress: “I ...

You get into your car, turn the knob, brace for warmth, and get…refrigerated air. Augh. Before you assume the worst, though, take a breath. Most heater failures fall into a short, familiar list for ...

It’s been a sweltering hot summer, marked by record-setting temperature highs and undeniably long heat waves across the U.S. As tens of millions of residents across the West remain under excessive ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

There's a widely reported claim that you can't heat something hotter than the sun using sunlight: https://what-if.xkcd.com/145/ The idea seems to be that no (passive ...

On March 31, an opinion piece was published in the Brainerd Dispatch by Mr. Phil Drietz. While much of his letter was red-meat rhetoric, he actually made a scientific claim that can be checked. He ...

It doesn’t take the end of the world to upend the way billions live in it. The punishing weather we are uneasily learning to call “normal” is doing that already. Late last month, a heat wave swallowed ...

Wykeisha Howe is trying to be thrifty. When her kids are uncomfortable in the sweltering Atlanta heat, she gives them freeze pops. Instead of cranking up the air conditioner, she uses a fan. Lunch and ...