With the start of the Nevada Legislature coming up Feb. 3, lawmakers are working on measures to address the toll of climate change on Nevada’s public health, economy, and workforce. Several lawmakers ...

Urban Heat Islands (UHIs) are metropolitan areas that are significantly warmer than their rural surroundings. This ...

Simmering urban temperatures are bad for humans. It's another story for rats, according to new research -- especially in ...

A new study linked increased rat numbers to climate change and urban heat islands. D.C. measures the rat population by the ...

Malaysia’s administrative capital Putrajaya was envisioned as a “Garden City”, a sanctuary where urban living and nature ...

"High heat is one of the major public health hazards that comes from weather events," Albright said. "In fact, it's the biggest one with the most deaths associated with it in the United States.

This variation is partly due to the urban heat island effect ... accurate data at the neighborhood levels very much helps us direct these interventions to places where they will have maximum ...

Auckland’s central city can get up to 3C hotter at night than other parts of the region because of an urban heat island effect ... of water bodies surrounding us, so we get the sea breeze ...

"What we're seeing now — and I think a lot of it has to do with how Lubbock has expanded so much over the past 10 years or so — is that we have a much more significant urban heat island effect." ...

The city of Bloomington is already working to address the disparities in air quality. Miya said the city provided Canopy ...

In Kumar’s cramped South Delhi neighborhood, heat radiated off the walls and street day and night in a textbook example of the urban heat island ... “Companies hiring us should be more humane ...