Understand heat
Live through a heatwave
Heat reaches people through their work, their homes and bodies, and the systems everyone depends on. Choose whose heatwave to follow: each takes about five minutes, and each ends with what could protect people at scale.
Work and income
A week in the heat
Follow one worker’s money through a heatwave week, build protection, then try to break it.
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A night in the heat
Stay with an older woman living alone, a pregnant woman or a family with a baby through a hot night and a clinic visit.
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A city under strain
Stress-test a city’s power, water, clinics and trees through a five-day heatwave, and see what holds.
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Each is a teaching exercise built from the evidence on this site, with composite, drawn people. None predicts what will happen to a real person or place.
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