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A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer keeps sending people out to the fields.

Tina Vásquez
A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer keeps sending people out to the fields.

How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting and hasn’t shared the tool that could help

NaBeela Washington
How many are dying from heat in Chicago? The city stopped counting and hasn’t shared the tool that could help

Climate advocates reach their boiling point at Summer of Heat protests

Jill Webb
Protesters sit on the ground while some stand behind them holding up signs.

Cooked in custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons

Kwaneta Harris Xandan Gulley Marissa Potts Lanae Tipton
digital collage with orange background and an illustration of hands gripping bars with a thermometer on the right side

Weeks after Hurricane Beryl, Black Houston neighborhoods are still recovering

Uyiosa Elegon
color photograph of a Black woman sitting on a wooden porch outside looking down at a small bag of food in her lap.

Decarceration is the best way prisons can adapt to climate change

Christopher Blackwell Sarah Sax
color photograph of a small handheld sign with the outline of the state of texas and the text "texas is burning them alive"

Workers across Southern states demand relief from record-breaking heat

Alexandra Martinez
color photograph of an outdoor protest in front of a Popeyes. people hold signs reading "our jobs are cooking workers alive"

Prison labor in Texas is modern-day slavery

Xandan Gulley
digital collage on a teal background of a Black person in an orange jumpsuit tilling a field with a hoe

Florida outdoor workers vow to continue heat protection fight after DeSantis ban

Alexandra Martinez
color photograph of an outdoor worker wearing a blue jacket and baseball cap filling a cup of water from a water cooler

California delays vote on critical indoor workplace heat safety standard

Alexandra Martinez
color photograph of three construction workers sitting on the ground against a building wall

Florida blocks heat standards from being passed across the state

Alexandra Martinez
color photograph of a female farmworker in a long-sleeve blue shirt, baseball cap, and sun hat wearing a face mask while cove

Miami-Dade County commissioners postpone heat standard vote

Alexandra Martinez
Miami-Dade County commissioners postpone heat standard vote