The temperature on any given summer day may be in the 80s or 90s. So why does it feel so much hotter and oppressive at times? That's the heat index doing its thing. Here's how it works: What is the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A new interactive map made by Multnomah County is helping to identify areas most at risk during heat events. According to Multnomah County officials, the Heat Vulnerability ...

People in many parts of the United States possess few chances for the robust community engagement that underpins healthy democracies, according to a new report that for the first time maps civic ...

“More than 200 million Americans are under extreme heat alerts” not a prediction for the future, that’s the reality enveloping the central and eastern United States this week, as per the National ...

The heat is on for western states gripped in the nation's first heat dome of the year. And it's a scorcher, with temperatures reaching into the triple digits for major cities such as Las Vegas, ...

A heat dome is trapping over 90 million Americans in extreme temperatures this week with the National Weather Service issuing heat alerts from Nebraska to Florida. Dangerous heat threatens to bake ...

Nicole Brown Chau is a deputy managing editor for CBSNews.com. She writes and edits national news, health stories, explainers and more. The extreme heat that has baked much of the central United ...

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The research team worked with big data and computational tools to develop a more precise map of civic opportunity than previously possible. People in many parts of the United States possess few ...