Stories by Ariel Wittenberg

By vastly understating the number of heat-related deaths, medical officials make it harder to improve heat safety and save lives

Houston’s warm, wet spring, driven in part by climate change, was a boon for mosquitoes and West Nile virus

Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records

Climate change-driven heat endangers Olympians. Here’s how the Games are helping competitors cool down

A 1972 law that allows states to avoid OSHA regulations for public-sector employees is undermining the nation’s first proposed worker safeguards for heat

Days after Hurricane Beryl hit Houston and left millions without power, the city was hit with a dangerous heat wave

It took 50 years and skyrocketing temperatures before the government proposed heat protections for workers. The Biden administration is trying to speed up the process

With a heat dome baking the eastern U.S., emergency departments in New England and the Midwest have seen a spike in heat-related cases

Skyrocketing temperatures are colliding with a lack of planning in Phoenix that is contributing to a rise in heat-related deaths

New CDC guidance encourages clinicians to start conversations with patients about dangerous heat

People in the U.S. will be able to see where extreme heat is a threat to health with a new interactive tool created by the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Books are becoming a key part of disaster recovery, helping toddlers—and their parents—cope with increasing hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires

Leaders of the Department of Health and Human Services will meet throughout the spring and summer to help protect farm laborers from heat and wildfire smoke

Emergency room visits and deaths can be heightened for weeks after a major extreme weather event, according to a new study

The Inflation Reduction Act allows nonprofit hospitals to take advantage of renewable tax credits that were otherwise out of reach

Harvard researchers found that most doctors and nurses who took a course in community organizing believed they could help combat climate change’s negative impacts on health

OSHA says the U.S. Postal Service failed to teach mail carriers about heat safety

An estimated 460,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributable to coal-fired power plant pollution between 1999 and 2020, new research finds

The number of fatal heart attacks, strokes and arrhythmias could triple for older and Black adults as extreme heat increases with global warming

This summer’s floods, hurricanes and wildfires have prevented blood collection at a time when U.S. hospitals are already low on supply

Extreme temperatures across the U.S. have put the elderly, outdoors workers and people with no access to cool air at the greatest risk of severe heat-related illnesses or even death

After last year’s heat crisis, Pacific Northwest emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer

The nation’s largest association of psychologists said its members should do more to treat the dangerous health effects of rising temperatures

By continuing to subsidize fossil fuels, recovery plans could exacerbate threats from diseases such as malaria, cholera and dengue fever