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Today in Chicago History: Temperature hit 106 degrees at Midway Airport during 1995 heat wave
30 years after deadly Chicago heat wave, threats persist as climate change elevates risks ...
30 years after historic heat wave, Chicagoans are still at risk
Northwestern University researchers are giving the city 30 recommendations to better prepare for heat waves and potentially ...
Extreme heat is a killer. A recent heat wave shows how much more deadly it’s becoming
Human-caused climate change tripled the number of estimated deaths in the recent European heat wave, according to a new ...
Dr. Cory Franklin: I worked in Cook County Hospital during the 1995 heat wave. Here’s how it changed Chicago.
Because of the heat wave, 1995 will go down as an important year in Chicago history and to a certain extent in American medical history as well. It was then that we learned that in the summertime, the ...
Revisiting the heat wave of July 1936
The effects of The Dust Bowl in the early 1930s led to a wave of record-setting heat waves across the eastern half of the ...
Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave
The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the ...
Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in recent European heat wave, study estimates
Scientists have linked last week’s European heat wave to human-caused climate change and estimate that climate change was ...
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Heat wave sends fruit, vegetable prices soaring in S. Korea
An unseasonably early heat wave this month is driving up agricultural prices in South Korea, a trend called “heatflation” that combines heat and inflation to describe rising food costs caused by ...