Urban trees often stand at the center of plans to fight rising city temperatures. Their cooling power seems simple and ...

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 ... there’s not many of us yet focused on those hottest North Texas days we know ...

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...