Getting Hot in Here

As temperatures rise, so must understanding of the risks

June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heat

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Corbin Hiar reports at the Scientific American that the big banks are now banking on …

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With electricity scarce, Africa’s most populated country struggles to provide lifesaving cooling without worsening the very crisis causing the heat.

To provide novel quantification and advanced measurements of surface temperatures (Ts) in playgrounds, employing multiple scales of data, and provide …

New data from WRI finds that in most cities, the difference between 3 degrees C and 1.5 degrees C of warming is sizable.

This study examines trends in heat-related mortality rates in the US population from 1999 to 2023.

Geographic designations have protected Europe’s greatest wines for over a century. A hotter planet means something has to change.

Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.

The row over air conditioning at the Paris 2024 Olympics higlights the challenge we face in gaining support for green technologies, writes Smith Mordak.

An innovative insurance program is paying daily wage laborers in India a portion of their income on days the temperature breaches a threshold.

As heat waves creep north, they are baking schools that previously did not need air conditioning. Fixing the problem will be neither cheap, nor easy.

Companies are increasingly changing the way they do business to cope with increasingly frequent episodes of extreme weather.

Cities are the first line of defense in humanity’s battle against deadly heat. Bloomberg Green’s Hot Cities series looks at changes some of the world’s hottest cities are making to protect their people from extreme temperatures.

Brutal temperatures in New Delhi, reaching as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit, have claimed over 100 lives.

New regulations likely won’t be implemented until 2026, but the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act already covers some employees.

In our warming world, kids are running out of places to play safely.

A small fraction of tropical tree leaves already pass the threshold, scientists estimate, and that number could grow under worst-case climate models.

With “green corridors” that mimic the natural forest, the Colombian city is driving down temperatures -- and could become five degrees cooler over the next few decades.

Ferries from Naples and Sorrento had been forced to return to port as mayor described situation as ‘real emergency’