On Sept. 2, 2026, the United Nations Environment Program report, Limiting Overshoot, declared that the world has fallen short of keeping global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and that urgent action is needed to course-correct.
That same week, NPR reported that extreme heat killed nearly five times as many people in the United States as official records indicated.These findings followed two consecutively brutal summers. Death counts from heatwaves across Europe dominated news cycles this year as the continent’s aging infrastructure struggled to cool down.
“Heat domes” trapped heat across the United States.But merely counting deaths from heat risks missing its impact on human life. Each heat dome in the U.S.
affected over 100 million people. Among them were construction worker…
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