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Topic: extreme heat

A vendor with an umbrella over his head talks on mobile phone as he wipes his face with a cloth on a hot summer day in Varanasi on May 27, 2024. (NIHARIKA KULKARNI/AFP via Getty Images)

We need a national climate plan — now

John J. Berger - TomDispatch.com
Buildings still smolder days after a wildfire gutted downtown Lahaina. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Record-breaking year of climate disaster

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Exhausted construction worker (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Workers pay the price under extreme heat

Amy Maxmen - KFF Health News
Olive Oil (Getty Images/HakanEliacik/500px)

Extreme heat is coming for olive oil

Michael La Corte
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Food trucks are seen during the Richmond Fusion Fest in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 11, 2023. (Liang Sen/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Heat's impact on the food truck industry

Joseph Winters - Grist
The sun sets behind the Statue of Liberty as it is partially obscured by heat waves from the exhaust of a passing ferry on May 31, 2020, in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Heat this summer will cost $1 billion

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
Sun rises over mountains as seen from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, United States on September 3, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Heat takes a toll on farmworkers

Blanca Begert - Grist
Sun rises over mountains as seen from the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California, United States on September 3, 2022. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The past 8 years were hottest in history

Lylla Younes - Grist
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Heat waves rise near a heat danger warning sign on the eve of the AdventurCORPS Badwater 135 ultra-marathon race on July 14, 2013 in Death Valley National Park, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

90% of humans will suffer drought, heat

Matthew Rozsa
Empty prison hallway (Getty Images)

Extreme heat killing prisoners in Texas

Alleen Brown - Grist
View of the downtown Phoenix, Arizona city skyline as seen from South Mountain Park (ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

Human health vs. fossil fuels

Zoya Teirstein - Grist
The sun sets behind power lines in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)

Extreme heat mainly impacts urban poor

Brett Marsh - Grist
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Sunny sky (Getty Images/Roman Studio)

With more sizzling summers, Colorado changes how heat advisories are issued

Markian Hawryluk - KFF Health News
A man drinks water from the water bottle during a hot weather, as the heat wave conditions prevailed in Northern India with the maximum temperature settling at 38.9 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal, on April 3, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

Climate change means a scorcher summer

Lina Tran - Grist
A man drinks water from the water bottle during a hot weather, as the heat wave conditions prevailed in Northern India with the maximum temperature settling at 38.9 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal, on April 3, 2016 in New Delhi, India. (Raj K Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

The world's poorest bear burden of heat

Lina Tran - Grist
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks on his administration’s COVID-19 response, and signed executive orders and other presidential actions. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Biden takes climate change seriously

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
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Texas Capitol building (Mark Thompson/Getty Images)

More Texas workers dying of extreme heat

Emily Pontecorvo - Grist
A bike rider is pictured as an excessive heat warning remains in effect a day after record-breaking temperatures from a historic heatwave throughout the region in Seattle, Washington on June 29, 2021. (JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change and the PNW heat wave

Shannon Osaka - Grist
Pregnant Woman By The Sea (Getty Images/iStock)

Climate change is shortening pregnancy

Nicole Karlis
Vintage cars line a property after the Loma fire burned through Loma Chiquita Road near Morgan Hill, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. A heat wave stifling drought-stricken California has worsened a wildfire that burned some buildings and forced people from their homes. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) (AP)

Fighting extreme heat

Justine Calma - Grist
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Worker's rights and climate change

Michael Arria - In These Times
In this Friday, Nov. 8, 2013 photo, motorists head northbound toward Las Vegas on U.S. Highway 93, near Kingman, Ariz. Supporters of proposals to build an interstate highway connecting Phoenix and Las Vegas say an interstate would create a Los Angeles-Phoenix-Las Vegas “megaregion” and open a trade route from Mexico to Pacific Ocean ports and Canada. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) (AP)

The terror of climate change

Brian Kahn
In this Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 photo, people gather on the sand at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Sydney residents sweltered through the city's second hottest night on record and its hottest December night in 148 years, with many cooling off at beaches long after dark. A minimum of 27.1 degrees Celsius (80.8 degrees Fahrenheit) was recorded in Australia's largest city early Wednesday, Australian Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Jordan Notara said. () (Joel Carrett/AAP Image via AP)

Australia's record heat

Andrea Thompson - Climate Central
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