As summer begins in the United States, some local officials and health experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers of extreme heat, whose effects can be deadly but hard to trace. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted in this story on how high temperatures can more easily overwhelm people who don’t experience it often and who underestimate its impacts.

A Washington Post analysis of a trove of meteorological records shows the extent of life-threatening heat across the globe. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.