Six ways planners can combine vegetative and built shade to improve comfort and safety on the ground.

New toolkit helps communities prepare for heat

We are living through a “heatshed” moment, a critical turning point in which heat must be rapidly addressed to protect health and livelihoods worldwide. The year 2024 was the hottest on record sinc...

More than 150 students across all three state universities have been involved in a Department of Energy program to help communities understand and respond to extreme heat. Their work, researchers said...

The Southwest Climate Outlook is published by the Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS), with support from University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, and the New Mexico State Climate office....

Planners seeking to increase their communities’ urban heat resilience can equitably prepare for and adapt to both chronic and acute heat risk through heat mitigation and management strategies.

This article presents a novel method for identifying and analysing the diverse pathways through which housing type is linked to social vulnerability. We use manufactured housing (MH) to challenge e...

Land surface temperature (LST) estimates often serve as urban heat islands maps and to infer human thermal comfort. Parallel to this, physiological he…

Increasing average temperatures and extreme heat events due to climate change have adverse effects on human health. Previous studies focus on the heat…