New study explains why the United States struggles to track heat related deaths and respond quickly when temperatures rise.

Extreme heat has already taken a deadly toll in the United States this summer, even as some of the hottest weeks are still to come. The Northern Hemisphere is approaching the midway point of summer, ...

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