Climate change is exacerbating extreme heat waves across the country, burdening families, putting Americans’ health at risk, ...

A heat dome​ is trapping over 90 million Americans in extreme temperatures this week with the National Weather Service​ issuing heat alerts from Nebraska to Florida.

Record-high minimum temperatures, in which temperatures don't drop in the nighttime hours, are likely across much of the U.S.

Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast from Washington to Arizona, meaning human-caused climate change made this extreme heat at least 5 times more likely.

Mediterranean countries are a growing wildfire hotspot, with scientists warning that climate change is driving increasingly hot and dry summers ...

Forecast maps from the weather service show the United States ... "Yes, July is usually a hot month, but climate change is making this heat wave significantly hotter — and therefore more dangerous — ...

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.

Climate change is fueling this early-season heat, making high temperatures in parts of central Canada at least five times more likely than they would be in a world without climate change.

HERSHER: We don't know yet. Scientists can only assess that after the heat breaks, and then they can kind of measure how much climate change affected this heat wave.

Climate change has made excessive heat in July at least three times more likely for nearly 160 million people in the U.S., nearly half the population, a Climate Central analysis found.