Tag: heat index

These 'bite-sized videos' provide short explanations of environmental terms that people regularly hear in the news.

The research helped lead to the development of the city’s first-ever Heat Resilience Playbook.

The workers who form the backbone of Florida’s economy have almost no official protection from the blazing sun.

Climate change is exacerbating heat risks by making extreme heat more common, intense and long-lasting.

House Bill 433 prohibits local governments in Florida from taking steps to protect outdoor workers from heat

This summer, Miami-Dade shattered previous records with 46 days where the heat index temperatures topped 100 degrees

As clinicians, we see the effects of planetary warming and we must help our patients survive and thrive.

The proposal has become so watered down — by lobbyists, apparently — that it won’t do enough to protect people.

After plume hunters largely wiped out the American flamingo by the turn of the 18th century, sightings have been rare.

The heat index combines the actual air temperature and relative humidity to reflect how hot it feels to the human ...