A study from Oregon State University and the U.S. Forest Service found the four-day extreme heat event scorched more than ...

The wave of extreme heat killed hundreds of people across the Pacific Northwest. It also took a toll on the region's forests, ...

Let’s take a moment to think back to mid-summer, when we were all enjoying cooler temperatures than normal, cloudy skies, and unexpectedly extra rainfall. Although it was a welcome alternative to the ...

Liv Yoon received funding from Health Canada's Climate Change and Health Office for the study that informs this article. Samantha Mew does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...

Planet-warming emissions from a group of the world's largest fossil fuel producers have significantly ramped up the intensity of heat waves, a new study suggests, one of the first peer-reviewed papers ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Spokane is no stranger to both heat and wildfire smoke and the health issues that come with both. Now two new plans from Gonzaga's Institute for Climate, Water and the Environment ...

Teens jump off the Electric Avenue bridge into the cool waters of Lake Whatcom in 2021. Paul Conrad For The Bellingham Herald A strong high-pressure system is parked over the Pacific Northwest, ...

A "heat dome," similar to a heat wave, is a high-pressure system trapping hot air and causing prolonged high temperatures. Heat domes differ from heat waves in their duration and the stagnant nature ...

Some areas could feel like 115 degrees. Around 170 million Americans from Nebraska to the Northeast are experiencing dangerously warm temperatures due to an ongoing heat wave. A life-threatening heat ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After a deadly, record-breaking heat wave blanketed the Pacific Northwest in 2021, researchers at Portland State University have found anomalies when it comes to the ...