heat

Everyone is feeling the heat this summer as daytime temperatures skyrocket with heat indexes in the triple digits and the nights stay warm. But heat isn’t evenly distributed across Charlotte’s urban heat island. For the first time, a group of volunteers are tracking down Charlotte’s hottest neighborhoods.

We asked photographers around the world to make pictures of how the locals cope with this year's record heat. They created some really cool images.

The past two weeks have seen some of the year's hottest weather in North Carolina with temperatures in the high 90s and "feels like" heat index values in parts of the state over 110. Extreme heat is a risk for workers, but like most states North Carolina has no standards or regulations to protect them. As the situation worsens with global warming, advocates say it's time for that to change.

A new report from NOAA and NASA confirms that last month was the hottest July ever recorded, driven to new heights by human-caused climate change.

Heat is dangerous for the many people with common conditions like diabetes or heart disease. And vulnerable communities face greater exposure to heat and fewer resources to escape it.

Millions of Americans are feeling the effects of this summer's heat waves, which scientists tell us are made worse by climate change. The extreme heat is most miserable and dangerous in cities, and especially in the most developed areas of cities that lack trees and open space. That's according to a new analysis of temperature data in 44 U.S. cities, including Charlotte and Raleigh.

Little kids are like a "small potato" whose core can heat up faster than an adult's, an expert tells NPR. Here are tips for helping children stay safe in extreme temperatures.

We asked: How have you coped with extreme heat when there was no air-conditioning? Here's a sampling of tips along with advice from heat wave researcher Gulrez Shah Azhar, who grew up in India's heat.

Nearly a third of Americans were under extreme heat advisories, watches and warnings. In Nevada, Arizona and California, desert temperatures could soar, in parts, past 120 F.

June 2023 was the hottest June on record, going back to 1850. And forecasters expect more records to fall as El Niño exacerbates human-caused climate change.