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Saving lives from extreme heat: Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat wave

  • Written by Jason Vogel, Interim Director, Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington
Saving lives from extreme heat: Lessons from the deadly 2021 Pacific Northwest heat waveVolunteers pick up water to deliver to homeless people during a 2021 heat wave.AP Photo/Nathan Howard

The heat dome that descended upon the Pacific Northwest in late June 2021 met a population radically unprepared for it.

Almost two-thirds of households earning US$50,000 or less and 70% of rented houses in Washington’s King, Pierce and...

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