With climate change causing temperatures to rise across the globe, extreme heat is becoming more common — and thus a bigger health threat. The human body is resilient, but it can only handle so much.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The human body needs to maintain the same internal body temperature or else many vital systems fall apart. Whether you prefer ...

Large swaths of Earth may soon be too hot for humans to handle. As early as mid-century, roughly a billion hectares of land — about the land area of the United States ­— or more could hit temperatures ...

There's a question on many scientists' minds as climate change heats up the planet. ROB MEADE: Basically, how hot is too hot for humans to survive for long periods? FADEL: That's Harvard scientist Rob ...

As temperatures around the world rise because of climate change, the human body is increasingly confronting a little-understood and increasing hazard: excessive heat. From enduring heatwaves to ...

How high a temperature can we survive? The human body's tolerance threshold In recent weeks, some regions of India have approached 122°F (50°C), an almost unbelievable temperature, and in the most ...

In a recent article, a number of scientists at Stanford (Protsiv et al.) raised the puzzling question of why the average human body temperature has decreased since the Industrial Revolution. Our ...