Dallas hopes new climate data can help shape strategies to combat the urban heat island effect that leaves ... there’s not many of us yet focused on those hottest North Texas days we know ...

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 ...

The next time you pass through Glass City Metropark, you’ll see some fresh timber in the ground! The planting operation was ...

The urban heat island effect happens when urban areas experience higher temperatures than surrounding rural areas.

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The urban heat island effect increases heat-related mortality but also substantially reduces cold-related deaths, with the reduction in cold-related mortality ...

“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 ...

Marshall Heights in Ward 7, Washington D.C., is an urban heat island due to a lack of green space and trees, a form of ...

The full article is available here as HTML. [CAIRO] Cities in low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a surge in urban heat island effects, driven by unplanned urban expansion, shrinking ...