This week, Victoria recorded its hottest day in nearly six years. On Tuesday, the northwest towns of Walpeup and Hopetoun reached 48.9°C, and the ...

Cities swelter in heatwaves - they heat up faster and stay hotter. But Australia has few strategies to cool them. Here’s how ...

Across the United States, the line between routine summer heat and life‑threatening disaster is getting thinner. As ...

NACTO has since published five other guides with Island Press, including global guides that reach planners around the world. It’s a great example of the work that Island Press can do to expand the ...

Awuh, M.E. (2026) Spatial Clustering Patterns of Thermal Extremes over Epochs in Douala, Littoral Region of Cameroon.

A comprehensive 40-year study (1981–2020) of 587 major Chinese lakes reveals that urbanization is a key driver of accelerated lake warming. The warming rate was 58.3% higher in the densely populated ...

Think about the last time you truly suffered through oppressive heat without any relief. Now imagine that's your reality every summer, month after month. For billions of people around the world, air ...

As temperatures rise around the world, city heat becomes increasingly unbearable during the hottest seasons. The urban heat island effect causes cities to become significantly warmer than surrounding ...

Cities worldwide are finally able to see their urban heat islands from above—and engineers are racing to turn those thermal pixels into cooler streets and safer neighborhoods. Satellite thermal ...

GOOD FOR THEM. IT’S A LOT OF ENERGY TO. WELL, WE WOKE UP TO SINGLE DIGIT WIND CHILLS THIS MORNING, BUT IT WASN’T COLD ENOUGH TO STOP EVERGY FROM PLANTING TREES IN NORTHEAST KANSAS CITY. AND KMBC9 ...

Urban Island Society is bringing its signature blend of island style and global inspiration to the holiday season at SALT at Our Kakaʻako. Owner Shinpei Horiguchi and store associate Yuki Watanabe ...

Using satellite imagery, researchers have discovered that nearly 5% of Oregon and Washington’s western forest canopy — about the size of Rhode Island — was scorched and damaged in the multiday 2021 ...