Sergio Lopez, 45, pours cold water over his head to cool off while working around his mobile home in Thermal on July 11. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Not a lot of people know about one of ...

Many extreme weather events have names, like Hurricane Beryl or California's Park Fire, so now people are talking about naming heat waves. FADEL: I feel like I'm a hurricane. INSKEEP: Oh, you're a ...

The sun blazes over Bourbon Street in New Orleans on June 26, 2024. On this day, the city is under a heat advisory with a heat index over 104 degrees. It’s June 26 — just days after the official start ...

A 30-year veteran of The Weather Channel has named the current heat wave Chevron, after the petroleum company. This heat wave may persist into August and has left Washington, DC, (pictured here) and ...

For this month’s edition of the Yale Climate Connections Editors’ Corner, we got together to talk about the climate-friendly, energy-efficient, all-electric replacement for furnaces and air ...

Not a lot of people know about one of California’s worst disasters in the last few decades, one that overwhelmed hospitals, sent bodies piling up in coroner’s offices and was deadlier than the 1994 ...