Here's why an Arizona medical examiner is working to track heat-related deaths

No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000x2251+0+0/resize/3000x2251!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F0d%2F18%2Fa352fcd141f49138bc6be686189d%2Fhess.jpg' alt='Pima County Medical Examiner Greg Hess at his office in Tucson, Ariz. Hess and another Arizona-based medical examiner are rethinking how to catalog and count heat-related deaths, a major step toward understanding the growing impacts of heat.'/><p>No one across the U.S. is consistently tracking climate-fueled deaths. One medical examiner has a new protocol on heat-deaths.</p><p>(Image credit: Cassidy Araiza for NPR)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-4854224' />