Are Cities Extreme Heat Plans Enough for a Warming World

Chicago, Illilois - Natural disasters can be dramatic - barreling hurricanes, building-toppling tornadoes - but heat is more deadly.

Chicago learned that the hard way in 1995.

That July, a weeklong heat wave that hit 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius) killed more than 700 people. Most of the deaths occurred in poor and majority Black neighborhoods, where many elderly or isolated people suffered wit