Heat islands can run 17 degrees F hotter than a city’s cooler areas. Studying them now may yield ideas for mitigating future warming. ByRyan Morris and Ryan Williams This story appears in the ...

Dallas hopes new climate data can help shape strategies to combat the urban heat island effect that leaves ... by as much as 12 degrees. See the map here. “In some areas, it could be 90 degrees.

Cities having higher ambient temperatures than rural surroundings (known as the urban heat island effect) could offset some ...

A 30-meter raster map of Urban Heat Island for the U.S. Cities was collected from the Trust for Public Land website and used to measure heat in east Las Vegas. The original data is derived from 10 ...

As dangerously high temperatures sweep much of the U.S., new analysis finds urban heat islands can significantly ... The city has a UHI index of over 7°F. The NWS' Vegas office noted in a ...

“After we got started, within a year, the Urban Heat Island map came out and the Food Desert Map came out. That gave us a reason to exist and a problem to solve," said Lisa Ortega with Nevada Plant ...