Heat-related illness can occur when your body temperature rises due to extreme heat. Here's how to recognize the symptoms and treat it effectively.

Hydration is essential for avoiding heat stress, but when summer fun hits, it can be easy to overheat despite our best efforts. Luckily, there’s a handy trick that can help quickly cool your body when ...

Sherri Gordon, CLC is a certified professional life coach, author, and journalist covering health and wellness, social issues, parenting, and mental health. She also has a certificate of completion ...

Climate change has been exacerbating heat waves, and the problem isn’t going away anytime soon. An increasingly hot planet — due largely to burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas — ...

WASHINGTON(7News) — As the D.C. region swelters under record heat this week with triple-digit feels-like temperatures and little overnight relief, 7News' First Alert Weather Chief Meteorologist ...

There has never been a better time to make an emergency home cooling kit, with summers getting hotter as the years go by. Now, with a heat dome event threatening most of the US, it is more important ...