Back to the Map: The United States of Natural Disasters
Atlas Guo is a cartographer and Ph.D. student. We met with him to learn more about mapping natural disasters and what goes into making a well-designed map.| Maps.com
Aging campuses are in need of modernization, but that can be costly for many schools that are already facing underinvestment, UCLA Luskin's V. Kelly Turner says.| UCLA Luskin
Tom Ryckaert speaks with Christa Dodoo and Eleni Myrivili about how rising urban temperatures affect facility management, highlighting the role of retrofits, […]| IFMA Knowledge Library
Atlas Guo is a cartographer and Ph.D. student. We met with him to learn more about mapping natural disasters and what goes into making a well-designed map.| Maps.com
A coat of white paint, combined with a few other simple design strategies, could help keep Britain’s homes cooler, cheaper to run and better prepared for the climate changes and high energy prices expected in the decades ahead.| Study Finds
ECB President Christine Lagarde warns Trump’s push to fire Fed officials and influence policy could destabilize the global economy.| Impakter
Hamilton's Equity-Based Heat Response Plan| Canadian Health Association for Sustainability & Equity (CHASE)
Florida architects designing high-end houses for wealthy, climate-conscious buyers have started working cooling techniques that were once common into their contemporary designs.| WUSF
The Sacramento Homeless Union has won a federal lawsuit against the City of Sacramento, resulting in a legal settlement that provides protections for unhoused residents during extreme heat events.| Davis Vanguard
The Climate Resilience Toolkit includes resources to support healthcare providers, patients, and administrators through extreme heat events, such as heat action plans, advice for medications in extreme heat, and communication templates.| NCAHEC - Digital Library
The heat dome is returning to Europe, bringing temperatures up to 40 °C and worsening drought and wildfire conditions.| Severe Weather Europe
Despite the climate crisis driving more bouts of devastating heat, too much of the world remains poorly prepared. Nuzhat Nueary introduces new Oxfam/FCDO research that looks at the links between extreme heat and water scarcity and highlights glaring gaps in humanitarian response.| frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk
Roughly 130 million people were under threat Saturday and into next week from a long-running heat wave that already has broken records with dangerously high temperatures — and is expected to shatter more from East Coast to West Coast, forecasters said.| PBS News
Oregon’s Cram Fire was a warning — the Pacific Northwest is ready to ignite.| Heatmap News
Small businesses in certain industries can get up to $1,000 for buying heat-protection equipment under a new credit from the New York State Insurance Fund.| Long Island Business News
Transitioning to using HeatRisk empowers us to respond earlier, when the people who are most likely to experience heat-related harm need support. This is KCRHA’s third summer using HeatRisk-based activation thresholds. We have aligned our activation tiers for extreme heat to better respond to the actual risk that any given heatwave poses to those living unsheltered in King County.| KCRHA
By Dana Drugmand Carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel producers have likely caused trillions of dollars in economic damages due to intensifying heatwaves over the last 30 years, according to new peer-reviewed research.| The New Lede
The 2024 climate report highlights extreme weather fueled by climate change, resulting in over 3,700 deaths, millions displaced, and significant biodiversity loss due to intensified storms, floods,…| A greener life, a greener world
Climate change can exacerbate other hazards. How can policymakers address this? This article explains the multihazard approach to resilience.| Arsht-Rock
It was the middle of a triple-digit heat wave in the hottest July ever recorded in Bakersfield, California. Bat biologist Erika Noel stepped beneath a freeway overpass along State Route 178, and the air felt like an oven. Forty feet above, clustered among five joints of the bridge, were thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats emitting their trademark musk—an odor laced with the smell of ammonia and corn chips.| Bay Nature
We should set aside a day for people to think about climate change, how it will affect them, and what to do. Aug. 23 is the day the greenhouse effect was discovered.| Legal Planet
We explore how four of our partner cities are approaching nature-based solutions, planting trees to cool their urban centers.| Arsht-Rock
Parts of Europe have been under a prolonged heatwave since early July, and the heat is forecast to extend for another two weeks. The marine heatwave across the Mediterranean.| Severe Weather Europe
A new state-wide report on the impacts of climate change shows New York City will be impacted on all fronts: The Big Apple is getting 6 to 10 degrees warmer, and will see more precipitation and tidal floods in the coming decades. “We have to understand that this stuff is going to happen, it's already happening,” one state official said.| City Limits
When nest box interiors reach 107° F, eggs fail and nestlings die from heat stress or dehydration. This is urgent! Act now to help nesting Bluebirds survive!| The Backyard Naturalist - Wild Bird Feeding Supplies, Nature Books and Gifts
Through mid-July, intense heatwave returns to the eastern and southern half of Europe; temperatures will surpass 40 °C in some areas.| Severe Weather Europe
After weeks of rainy and cool weather, summertime weather will finally expand into Europe next week. A powerful heatwave is forecast for central and eastern Europe.| Severe Weather Europe
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation (HB 1645) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008. The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: … Continue reading "Florida Governor DeSantis’ Head-In-The-Sand Climate Change Policies"| Legal Planet
Amid rising temperatures, Athens, Greece has taken bold steps to combat extreme heat through innovative solutions.| Climate Resilience Center
Recommendations from GCCA, Society of Behavioral Medicine and others provide a roadmap for cities to address dangerous heat during the COVID-19 pandemic. A new policy brief from the Society of Behavioral Medicine lays out a roadmap to help cities adjust their approach to preparing for compounding health challenges dangerous summer heat and COVID-19. The brief … Continue reading Recommendations for cities during the COVID-19 pandemic →| Global Cool Cities Alliance
The urban heat island effect makes billions vulnerable to heat. This blog explores what it is and how heat in cities impacts people.| Arsht-Rock
