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Displaying 11 of about 11 results… and human-caused climate changes have led to increases in heat events around the world. For example, in July 2012, an extreme heat wave hit the Chicago area, causing temperatures to skyrocket …
… Public Works, was given a second title this month: chief heat officer, the city’s first. She joins a number of heat officers around the world as cities from Athens, Greece … Chile , begin to coordinate a better response to extreme heat and develop sustainable cooling strategies. Phoenix and …
… Heat waves and air pollution events can often occur at the … (USA) to measure the daily on-the-ground pattern of urban heat and ozone pollution. Their results may be effective at … measurements available to researchers. View the study … Heat waves and air pollution events can often occur at the …
… report assesses the social and economic effects of extreme heat through the prism of twelve cities that are already enduring and addressing dramatic impacts of heat waves. The danger posed by extreme heat in urban centers—particularly in the global South—defies …
… government resources to reducing the risks of extreme heat in partnership with the Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller … Orrego, appointed Cristina Huidobro to the role of Chief Heat Officer (CHO) in partnership with the Atlantic … committed to tackling the growing threat of extreme urban heat for vulnerable people. The appointment also marks …
… Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. … others just a few miles away. Within these “ micro-urban heat islands ,” communities can experience heat wave conditions well before officials declare a heat …
… a record during the National Weather Service's excessive heat warning over the weekend, but at a certain point, who … saw the temperature hit 121 degrees last June 30. The heat wave in Lytton led to a wildfire that destroyed nearly …
… highlights gaps in municipal planning for often dangerous heat This month, Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix all posted … a scorching summer. Yet despite more frequent and intense heat waves on the horizon, cities are underprepared to deal … found that 78% of these cities’ climate plans mentioned heat as a problem, but few offered a comprehensive strategy …
… [...] Summer heat is baking Richmond’s poorest neighborhoods, most of … 227,000, is adapting to climate disasters — mostly extreme heat, floods and droughts — with an eye toward environmental … County just north of San Francisco. [...] … [...] Summer heat is baking Richmond’s poorest neighborhoods, most of …
… nearby green spaces, others are vulnerable to increasing heat stress, largely because of dark roofs, unshaded parking … neighborhoods identified as being at particular risk for heat stress. (The other neighborhoods are Chinatown, … justice communities, are at the focus of Boston’s heat resilience strategies, which include increasing the …
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All that parkland helps protect millions of Americans from the effects of global warming. Pools and splash pads offer a place to cool off on dangerously hot days. Trees provide shade, pull carbon dioxide out of the air and even lower the temperature in nearby neighborhoods. Marshes, ponds and meadows soak up water when it rains to help…