In short, climate change is causing heat waves to become more common, intense and longer-lasting. They are also hitting both earlier and later in the warm season, and in many parts of the world ...

With many parts of the country experiencing a record heat wave, more Americans now think climate change is to blame. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 67 ...

As previous disasters have laid bare the US’ vulnerabilities to other types of extreme weather, this week is revealing strains in infrastructure and highlighting public health risks when faced ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn't going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — ...

Climate change is making Earth warmer. The heat is part of Earth's long-term warming. Summers in the United States are 2.4 degrees (1.3 degrees Celsius) hotter than 50 years ago, according to NOAA ...

Heat records tumbled across parts of the US Northeast. In Central Park, known as the lungs of Manhattan, Monday's temperature of 96F (36C) tied a record that has stood since 1888, according to the ...

The intensifying and expansive heat wave affecting around 150 million people in the United States from Wisconsin to Washington, DC, bears the hallmarks of human-caused global warming.

Heat waves are the deadliest form of extreme weather in the US, according to the National Weather Service, and while the full extent of any deaths or health impacts from this heat may take weeks ...

This was the case with the Pacific Northwest heat wave of 2021, a Siberian heat wave in 2020 and a United Kingdom heat wave in 2022, among other more recent events.

A clearer link to climate change. Studies have shown heat extremes have clear ties to global warming, as their likelihood and severity also increases significantly as global average temperature rises.

US heat wave exposes ... An analysis by the climate research nonprofit Climate Central found climate change made Tuesday’s extreme heat in the Mid-Atlantic at least five times more likely to ...

By Andrew Freedman, Mary Gilbert, CNN (CNN) — Buckled roads. Broken bridges. Delayed trains. Strained power grids that led to dangerous outages.