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The sneakers, clothes, and electrolytes needed to run the "Toughest Footrace on Earth." It's 135 miles in 117-degree heat, ...

Tucson's record summer heat was a harbinger of things to come, meaning more 100-degree days and 80-degree nights, climate experts say. The outlook for more "nonsoons," however, is murkier.

A student adds a bar of cast aluminum to the department’s Speedy-Melt furnace in the Hulsey sculpture courtyard. Aluminum ...

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Lightning’s extreme heat will vaporize the water inside a tree, creating steam that may blow the tree apart. It can also send electrical currents quickly through water and metal.

Augusta’s overnight warming shelter secures funding for payroll, heating bill Augusta officials agreed to give $13,450 in opioid settlement funds to replenish the warming center.