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Heat

Construction workers deal with heat

SUSAN PHILLIPS / WHYY

New Jersey offers grants to tackle the urban heat island effect Read More »

Pregnant woman

JOANNA GAGIS / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS

How extreme heat poses major risk to pregnancy Read More »

Construction workers deal with heat

BOB HENSON / YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS

Unprecedented June heat along the Northeast urban corridor, brought to you by climate change Read More »

Highway 287 sign

LARRY HIGGS / NJ.COM

Part of I-287 closed down again as heat causes pavement to buckle Read More »

Construction worker sweating in heat

TED GOLDBERG / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS

Time for heat standards for NJ workplaces? Read More »

Paterson graduation heat emergency

MINYVONNE BURKE / NBC NEWS

Over 100 people fall ill at New Jersey graduations in ‘mass casualty’ incident due to extreme heat Read More »

Construction workers deal with heat

DELGER ERDENESANAA / NY TIMES

Earth’s 10 hottest years on record are the last 10 Read More »

2024 was the warmest year on record

SETH BORENSTEIN / AP

Earth breaks yearly heat record and lurches past dangerous warming threshold Read More »

Hot sun

LILO H. STAINTON / NJ SPOTLIGHT NEWS

Rising heat leads to greater health risks. Who’s most vulnerable? Read More »

Newark, train trestle over Passaic River

STEVEN RODAS / NJ.COM

The strange but true reason this city is always hotter than everywhere else in N.J. Read More »