Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in the fields of a former slave plantation, saying they face “substantial risk of injury or death.” The state immediately appealed the decision. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday, giving the state department …
At least 100 people have died over the past two weeks in Mexico due to heat-related causes as temperatures climbed close to 50 degrees Celsius in parts of the country, the health ministry said on Thursday. In the past two weeks in Mexico, heat-related causes killed more than 100 people. A three-week-long heat wave this month strained the energy grid …
