Heat waves bring some level of discomfort to nearly everyone. When excessive heat catches vulnerable populations off guard, that discomfort can advance to illness and even death. Public health officials in Minnesota are working to protect people in both rural and urban settings.
Hot temperatures roast the western United States
June 28, 2017
January 2017 brings the heat down under in Australia
February 10, 2017
Wildfires burn up western North America
July 24, 2015
Summer heat wave arrives in Europe
July 14, 2015
India heat wave kills thousands
June 9, 2015
Understanding how extreme events in 2012 were influenced—or not—by human-caused climate change
Although solar flares can bombard Earth’s outermost atmosphere with tremendous amounts of energy, most of that energy is reflected back into space by the Earth’s magnetic field or radiated back to space as heat by the thermosphere.