Extreme Heat

Two years ago, the legislature unanimously passed a heat illness prevention bill for student athletes.

In an on overview published ahead of its full report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that 2021 ranked the third costliest on record for such events.

The ongoing mapping has included Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. NOAA hopes to enlist more groups to expand the effort.

Floridians know that for six months of the year they have to be on guard for hurricanes. There are official updates from federal agencies, tax holidays to purchase supplies for protection and a blitz of media activity.

Before they can change warnings about extreme heat or launch solutions to address it, planners say they need to better understand the harm it's doing.

The study projects that by midcentury, without action on climate change, Florida's workers on average could potentially lose 33 work days per year due to extreme heat compared to five now.

An investigation found that inequality is fueling heat-related illnesses across the state, Fort Pierce is the hottest ZIP code in Florida, and the government and medical community are both not doing enough for what is referred to by farmworkers as “being caught by the bear.”

Heat-related illnesses are soaring in Arizona and Florida as the planet warms and temperatures rise. Poor communities are bearing the brunt of sickening heat in these states.

Farmworkers have long faced dangers from laboring outside in sweltering heat. As climate change raises temperatures, heat illness could come for far more people.

2020 and 2016 are virtually tied for the hottest year on record. That means more powerful hurricanes, more intense wildfires, less ice and longer heat waves.

How hot is it in Florida? It's actually melting art installations across the state.

Sixteen-year-old Zach Martin was propped up against his football coach and moaning incoherently when his mom got to the field. Around him, other boys were…