Extreme Temperatures Are Hurting Our Mental Health
Residents rest inside a cooling center during a heatwave in Palm Springs, California, US.
Photographer: Kyle Grillot/BloombergHi, it’s John in New York, where each summer seems more sweltering than the last. As the world gets hotter, how does the heat affect our mental health? More on that below, but first...
Temperatures are reaching extremes around the world. The risks that dangerous heat poses to the human body are familiar. In the US alone, heat causes hundreds of deaths a year and tens of thousands of hospital trips — and the US is better equipped than much of the planet to deal with it. How hotter summers influence our mental health is less clear.