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Excessive heat is pushing the limits of human tolerability. In more than a dozen articles, Wise & Well examines how hot is too hot, how heat attacks body and mind in insidious ways, and what we can do to survive this rapidly warming world.

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down.

Why Extreme Heat Kills So Quickly

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and what you need to know about this deadly force of nature.—By Kathleen Murphy

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and what you need to know about this deadly force of nature.—By Kathleen Murphy

Why Extreme Heat Kills So Quickly

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and what you need to know about this deadly force of nature.—By Kathleen Murphy

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and what you need to know about this deadly force of nature.—By Kathleen Murphy

Why Extreme Heat Kills So Quickly

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and what you need to know about this deadly force of nature.—By Kathleen Murphy

Humans evolved to survive in a pretty narrow temperature range. When the body exceeds that range, it starts to shut down. Death can follow quickly, sometimes horrifically. The writer wishes she understood this better when she took a fateful hike recently on a hot summer day. Find out what she’s since learned reporting on the science of heat stroke and heat exhaustion,