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Alejandra Borunda

Reporter · US

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Sep 16, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Alejandra Borunda

    Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths (opens the original)

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    Greg Hess deals with death day in, day out. Hess is the medical examiner for Pima County, Ariz., a region along the United States-Mexico border. His office handles some 3,000 deaths each year — quiet deaths, overdoses, gruesome deaths, tragic ones. From April through October every year, Hess is confronted with an increasingly obvious and dramatic problem: His morgue drawers fill with people who died sooner than they should have because of Arizona's suffocating heat. Pima is hot, but it's not the

  2. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Alejandra Borunda

    'Her body temperature was 106': How heat is killing Americans in their homes (opens the original)

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    An NPR investigation finds that heat kills thousands of Americans every year. But official records radically undercount the toll. In this series, we are bringing you stories that reveal why this happens and what can be done. Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. But not everyone faces the same risk. Some of those most in danger are the millions of Americans who live in manufactured housing like mobile homes and trailers. That's not news to many mobile home residents. But res

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Alejandra Borunda

    He died of 'natural causes.' But his mother says she knows what killed him: heat (opens the original)

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    An NPR investigation finds that heat kills thousands of Americans every year. But official records radically undercount the toll. In this series, we are bringing you stories that reveal why this happens and what can be done. Heat is killing thousands more Americans every year than official data suggests, and the U.S. health system is struggling to document its often silent role. Debbie Willson is acutely aware of how a death can fall through the cracks. Debbie and her son, Adam Willson, lived in

  4. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Alejandra Borunda

    NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll (opens the original)

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    Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat. As summer heat intensifies because of human-driven climate change, the United States' official tally of heat-related deaths does not come close to capturing the full human toll. The data feeding into nationwide death counts is collected inconsistently and rarely thoroughly. The result is a vast undercount of the number of people who die because of heat. And experts say failing to recognize and address this may co

  5. Article · Sep 1, 2026 · Alejandra Borunda

    New NPR study on heat deaths finds a staggering hidden toll - particularly in South Florida (opens the original)

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    Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat. As summer heat intensifies because of human-driven climate change, the United States' official tally of heat-related deaths does not come close to capturing the full human toll. The data feeding into nationwide death counts is collected inconsistently and rarely thoroughly. The result is a vast undercount of the number of people who die because of heat. And experts say failing to recognize and address this may co

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