A sweltering and unusually early heat wave across the Southwest is raising the risk of an all-too-familiar tragedy in the United States: deaths of children in hot cars. Each year on average, nearly 40 ...

I'm a mom with 15+ years of experience covering health and science. For those of us longing for spring—especially parents like me who have endured what seems like an unending parade of snow days and ...

A different subject now. Little kids can really struggle in the heat. Their bodies don't sweat as efficiently as adults' bodies do, and they have to rely on adults to find the relief of air ...

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