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Displaying 15 of about 42 results… from Princeton University have found that the urban heat island effect — cities are hotter in the summer than … cities in the Northeast and Midwest during a 2014 cold wave. They found that urban areas stayed warmer than the … extreme temperatures and curb year-round energy use. Urban heat islands have been extensively studied during heat waves, …
… census tracts most vulnerable and most exposed to extreme heat Four Twenty Seven, a California-based climate risk … firm, today announced a new online tool, the California Heat Assessment Tool (CHAT), that projects health impacts of … Seven found that an event equivalent to the 2006 heat wave has a 50 percent chance of occurring two to three times …
… By Christopher Joyce [...] In the U.S., in fact, heat-related illness appears to be declining. [...] The … is driving it, Jeremy Hess, a medical doctor and heat-illness researcher at the University of Washington, says … in the population. He found that emergency room visits for heat-related illness were relatively high in rural areas, …
… By Jennifer Weeks Oppressive heat across much of North America since the end of June has … the warmest time of year for much of the nation, so more heat waves could develop in the coming weeks. These articles from our archive offer insight into heat wave impacts, and some ways to cope with them. 1. Air …
… How can multifamily buildings prepare for extreme heat? Two things that help are backup generators and … standard can be habitable for up to a week during a heat event with no electricity, he noted, while a normal … How can multifamily buildings prepare for extreme heat? Two things that help are backup generators and …
… A new study shows extreme heat events both in the summer and in the winter are … The new study found both relative and absolute extreme heat events have increased across the US and Canada since … and his co-author conducted a climatology of cold and heat events, both absolute and relative, for North America, …
… executives were sitting in their offices dropping off from heat exhaustion, probably something would be done more … Malo Outdoor workers must be better protected from extreme heat with nationwide regulations to fill a dangerous lack of … The National Weather Service warned this week of a heat wave that was predicted to bring temperatures in Houston, …
… figuring out how to keep so many people from dying of heat-related causes and how to bring down the temperature in … figuring out how to keep so many people from dying of heat-related causes and how to bring down the temperature in …
… might or might not work as we try to adapt to the coming heat. Now a team of researchers led by Arizona State … will provide only a fraction of relief from the projected heat. The researchers looked at the daily interaction between … megapolitan areas. Then they examined a spectrum of heat-mitigating strategies that included street-level trees …
… Human-caused climate change will drive more extreme summer heat waves in the western U.S., including in California and … as early as 2020, new research shows. The new analysis of heat wave patterns across the U.S., led by scientists at the …
… By Brendan Bane The heat is rising. As California battles another round of … predicts that in the coming decades the United States’ heat problem will grow more dangerous and expensive. Even … which groups are most at-risk of dying from extreme heat, projects increases in heat-related premature deaths, …
… The report, which examined media coverage of extreme heat and climate change from Jan. 1 to July 8, found that … by circulation, a total of 760 articles mentioned extreme heat, heatwaves, record heat, or record temperatures, but only 134 of these pieces, …
… in dormitories without air conditioning (AC) during a heat wave performed worse on a series of cognitive tests compared … cognitive effects of indoor temperatures during a heat wave in a group of young healthy individuals, highlights …
… gets stuck. Rains can grow into floods, sunny days into heat waves, and tinder-dry conditions into wildfires.” … due to human-caused global warming which intensifies heat waves and heavy rainfall, and on top of that we could … 4.7 billion Canadian Dollars. “Clearly, the planetary wave pattern wasn’t the only cause for the fire – yet it was …
… Heat waves are among the deadliest and most common of … continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse gases, heat waves are expected to become more severe, particularly … on temperature, which reduces the severity of a heat wave. In other words, cities with more moisture will cool …