Temperatures can vary widely across a city, even in the same neighborhood. As the climate heats up, volunteers in Missoula ...

Julia Zeitlin and dozens of other volunteers launched a bold experiment on a hot August day a year ago, when they attached ...

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A season of record wildfires and a wave of extreme heat is forcing Europe to confront difficult questions about how to adapt.

Every day, the sun's heat and light reach urban, suburban and rural areas in the same way. Given identical weather conditions ...

As record-breaking heat grips South Florida, Miami’s new heat sensors initiative is well underway, capturing how rising temperatures are experienced inside homes and neighborhoods most vulnerable to a ...

Researchers from the University of Freiburg and KIT have built a deep learning model to predict urban heat stress per square meter under future climate scenarios. In Freiburg, strong and extreme heat ...

In urban environments, heat gets absorbed and released by the pavement, buildings and other objects. A new study says that an underestimated factor in urban warming is heat radiating from parked cars.

The future of cooling is the past: Centuries-old knowledge can help engineers and architects design for a warming earth. That can mean using local materials such as clay and incorporating passive ...