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Chronic dehydration is a widespread but often overlooked safety hazard in high-heat workplaces, affecting cognitive ...

Heat has always been something we thought we understood. From baking bread to running engines, the idea seemed simple: heat ...

Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

As climate change helps fuel more severe heat waves, the city is struggling between maintaining its architectural heritage and keeping apartments livable. A view of Paris and its zinc-roofed buildings ...

A former Miami Heat security worker and retired Miami police officer charged in a massive memorabilia theft that involved millions of dollars' worth of game-used jerseys and other items has pleaded ...

The Kraftblock team at the site of one of their firm's thermal batteries, installed at a ceramics plant. The battery is the white container connected to the building via the chrome pipes. About half ...

Heat health action plans often fail to address the specific needs of individuals with mental illness, despite the increased risks they face. While air conditioning offers temporary relief, ...

NOW GO FIND YOU SOME AIR CONDITIONING. WELL, THE EXTREME HEAT IN OMAHA IS CAUSING PROBLEMS FOR SOME PEOPLE. SPEAKING OF AC, INCREASED AIR CONDITIONING PROBLEMS ARE ALSO LEADING TO MORE CALLS FOR ...