Urban Heat Islands amplify global climate change impacts for Latinos

*Take away: “place matters in identifying the most vulnerable populations” to climate change. Read this piece. Inner cities, where most U.S. Latinos live and work, are heat islands, paved-over, radiating […]

This summer has been one of the hottest on record, thousands of temperature records have been broken across the country, killing dozens of people and sending thousands with illnesses like […]

Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are the most serious heat-related illnesses. Extreme summer heat like we’re seeing this summer can place older people at increased risk for developing a dangerously […]