An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by Phoenix standards. It wasn’t even high enough to trigger an official heat warning for the wider public. But research has shown that those temperatures, coming so early in June, would drive up the number of heat-related hospital visits and deaths across the Boston region.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

The impact of gender inequity is felt within women’s mental health. India ranks 127^th out of 146 countries on the gender gap index (Global Gender Gap Report 2023), and 142^th in the “health & survival” sub-index.

A huge wildfire burning out of control in California’s Mojave national preserve is spreading rapidly amid erratic winds. The York fire erupted on Friday near the remote Caruthers Canyon area of the wildland preserve. It crossed the state line into Nevada on Sunday, and sent smoke further east into the Las Vegas Valley.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

As climate change fans hotter and longer heat waves, breaking record temperatures across the U.S. and leaving dozens dead, the poorest Americans suffer the hottest days with the fewest defenses. Air conditioning, once a luxury, is now a matter of survival.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.