Cities are seeking low-cost ways to ease the heat island effect. Researchers found benefits and trade-offs in two popular options, but they vary by city and even neighborhood.

Heat and humidity will once again smother the eastern half of the country this week, pushing the heat index to dangerous levels for tens of millions of people. In the Midwest, the humidity will be boosted by a phenomenon called “corn sweat.

Ecosystem, vegetation affect intensity of urban heat island effect. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 12 / 091215173021.htm

Heat risk isn’t just about the highs: Large daily temperature swings can harm human health – maps show who is affected most

Satellite heat maps expand that sort of observation to a big picture perspective of what we may feel as we move through the world that in Arizona often just ranges from hot, to really hot.

A map shows the effects of urban heat in neighborhoods around New York City. (Climate Central) The urban heat index is also high per capita in Chicago, but its hottest spots are more concentrated ...

The project’s Heat Exposure Index combines an area’s temperature and measurements of vegetation, which tends to keep places cooler, and “impervious surfaces” like buildings, sidewalks and ...

NASA Maps the Skin-Burning Heat in Phoenix. On June 19, at 1:02 p.m. local time, the ECOSTRESS instrument (short for Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) measured ...