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This week’s heat already feels like deep summer. Why that can be dangerous.

June 19, 2024 | Washington Post | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View

This isn’t your grandparents’ summer heat

June 19, 2024 | Scientific American | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View

‘Silent killer’: Heat could be deadlier in 2024 than ever before

June 18, 2024 | Mass Live | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View

Fuel to the fire: How climate change makes wildfire season worse

June 18, 2024 | MinnPost | Featured: Alison Cullen | View

Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths

June 11, 2024 | NPR | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View

Lab experiment shows exactly how heat waves can put hearts into ‘oxygen debt’

June 10, 2024 | STAT News | Featured: Joel D. Kaufman | View

No more lead in your eyeliner: New Washington state law bans toxic cosmetics

June 10, 2024 | KUOW | Featured: Diana Ceballos

Aesha Mokashi

More than 1.5 billion people have faced dangerous heat this year

June 7, 2024 | Washington Post | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View

New UW faculty get to know Spokane, and some of the ways UW students are helping promote better health in the region

June 7, 2024 | Spokesman-Review | Featured: Hilary Arnold Godwin | View

AP analysis finds 2023 set record for US heat deaths, killing in areas that used to handle the heat

May 31, 2024 | Associated Press | Featured: Kristie L. Ebi | View