As extreme heat worsens, cities are exploring ways to reach isolated individuals before it’s too late.

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

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.

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.

Days and years of exposure to persistent heat can tax the heart and kidneys, disrupt sleep and challenge our mental health.

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