The rates of emergency department visits for heat-related causes increased by 67% for African Americans, 63% for Hispanics, 53% for Asian Americans and 27% for white people from 2005 to 2015 ...

There are hundreds of heat ... Black New Yorkers. The age-adjusted death rate among Black people was 2.2 deaths per million from 2011-2020, the report says. It was 0.9 deaths per million for White ...

heat-related cardiovascular deaths could grow six-fold among Black adults in the US, according to the scenarios analyzed in the study – compared with a projected 2.4 times increase among White ...

From 2008 to 2019, extreme heat was associated ... times while non-Hispanic Black adults are projected to have a 3.8 to 4.6 times increase compared with non-Hispanic White adults.

In NYC, it has been statistically proven that Black residents die from heat-related ailments at twice the rate of their white counterparts. Environmental racism is to blame—and Black folks ...

Black New Yorkers ... warns that extreme heat “is the deadliest type of extreme weather” and that black people are twice as likely to die from heat stroke as white people in the Big Apple.

How extreme heat impacts the human body — and why it eventually kills ... Quirks & Quarks, and White Coat, Black Art, that explores how heat is affecting our health, our cities and our ecosystems.