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Heat waves are considered a public health issue because of the heat illness risks they pose. In fact, heat is the country's number one killer when it comes to weather events, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. When people…

Why It Matters: Case counts have become less reliable.Even if people who are infected with the coronavirus never seek testing or treatment, they shed the virus in their stool. That has made wastewater surveillance a useful way to keep track…

Large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave on Tuesday and firefighters battled to put out blazes across the region. In Algeria, at least 34 people have died. In Croatia, flames came within 12 km (7.5…

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RHODES: A third successive heat wave in Greece pushed temperatures back above 40 C (104 F) across parts of the country on Tuesday following more nighttime evacuations from fires that have raged out of control for days.The latest evacuations…

A 'heartbreaking' new dating phenomenon combining two toxic relationship trend is stoking trust issues in people using online dating apps. Ghostlighting, a combination of gaslighting and ghosting, has cropped up in the last few months on…

Army veteran Mike Watters, 60, lives so close to the Fayetteville Works chemical plant he can hear alarms when they go off. The factory has been accused of poisoning the water supply used by hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians with…

Morocco's passion for football was showcased at the men's World Cup last year, when the Atlas Lions defied all expectations and reached the semifinals in Qatar. That energy is now flowing into the women's game. The Moroccan diaspora…

On Sunday, a remote township in the Turpan Depression registered a maximum air temperature of 52.2 degrees Celsius, smashing China's national record of 50.3 degrees Celsius set in 2015, also in the basin. On that day, the oasis city of…

We're about halfway through July, and summer 2023 has already been marked by a haze of smoke from Canadian wildfires and some of the hottest days in Earth's modern history. As our planet heats up, the health burden won't be shared equally.…