As temperatures rise around the world, city heat becomes increasingly unbearable during the hottest seasons. The urban heat ...

Dallas hopes new climate data can help shape strategies to combat the urban heat island effect that leaves some neighborhoods more than 10 degrees warmer on some of our hottest days. When we see those ...

PARTS OF OUR CITY. WHILE THE TEMPERATURE OUTSIDE IS SCORCHING ALL ACROSS OUR AREA, IT CAN BE MORE THAN TEN DEGREES HOTTER IN PARTS OF THE METRO. THE CITY IS KNOWN AS AN URBAN HEAT ISLAND, BUT METRO ...

The city's latest study on urban heat islands could help it address the issue. Dallas officials hope newly released data will help them finds new ways to cool temperatures in the city’s heat islands.

(TNS) — Ricardo Rodriguez lives in a West Side neighborhood where the temperature in homes without air conditioning can soar to 120 degrees on hot summer days. Some residents come home from work and ...

Cities having higher ambient temperatures than rural surroundings (known as the urban heat island effect) could offset some of the negative effects of increased heat-related mortality by reducing the ...

PHILADELPHIA ‒ It was another brutally hot day in a summer that has seen more than its share of them. Temperatures were in the high 80s, but with the oppressive humidity, heat indices reached into the ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Everyone feels the heat during the summer, but new research shows some spots in Portsmouth are definitely hotter than others. On Saturday, experts presented the findings of a ...

In a recent study published in “Science of the Total Environment,” scientists at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology and Zhejiang University found that the surface urban heat island effect had implications ...