But with the Google Maps location data from Android smartphones, something else is possible: You can see at a glance where you have been particularly often and where you rarely go. This is made ...

The tool is especially helpful for those who may not realize how different the heat impact can be between neighborhoods. Urban areas with less tree cover, for example, often face ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team. She ...

Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB Health authorities in Oregon unveiled a heat map of the greater Portland area Wednesday, in the hope of avoiding deaths during the next excessive heat wave. On a sunny day ...

What to know about extreme weather? Here are four maps that cover severe weather alerts, the heat index forecast, a climate report that provides month-by-month temperature and precipitation data for ...

As a woman, the peace of a sundown stroll can be very much outweighed by the creeping feeling of being followed or fearing what lurks in the darkness. More than 50 percent of women in the United ...

A live tracker map shows the regions of the U.S. hit by the massive heat dome sweeping the country with sweltering temperatures and humidity. Parts of Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa will be ...