COMIC: How excessive heat kills and how to stay safe
📰 NPR · 📅 Jun 13, 2026, 10:00 AM · 🌐 npr.org
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What happened?
The comic explains that high ambient heat and humidity overcome the human body's natural cooling system to cause fatal heat-related illness, and outlines recommended steps to avoid heat-related harm.
Why does this event matter?
Heat-related illness and death are largely preventable, and public dissemination of clear information on heat risk mechanisms and protective actions reduces population-level heat-related morbidity and mortality.
Human bodies have a natural cooling system, but it can do only so much in high temperatures and humidity. Here's the science behind how heat kills. And how to protect yourself.
