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- Is air conditioning making cities hotter? https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/08/30/fact-check-is-air-conditioning-making-cities-hotter 271 comments
- Why cities will feel hotter than other areas during the heat wave https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/us-heat-wave-fires-storms-06-18-24#h_febf6ea5663343c30d21d33b99e3a496 14 comments environment
- Why cities will feel hotter than other areas during the heat wave https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/us-heat-wave-fires-storms-06-18-24#h_febf6ea5663343c30d21d33b99e3a496 16 comments climate
- Hotter than Dubai: US cities at risk of Middle Eastern temperatures by 2100 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/us-cities-risk-middle-eastern-temperatures-by-2100-climate-crisis 126 comments futurology
- Hotter than Dubai: US cities at risk of Middle Eastern temperatures by 2100 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/us-cities-risk-middle-eastern-temperatures-by-2100-climate-crisis 10 comments environment
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/hotter-human-body-can-handle-pakistan-city-broils-worlds-highest/ 6 comments worldnews
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/hotter-human-body-can-handle-pakistan-city-broils-worlds-highest/ 4 comments environment
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/hotter-human-body-can-handle-pakistan-city-broils-worlds-highest/ 8 comments climate
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures https://reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/oa7d0t/hotter_than_the_human_body_can_handle_pakistan/ 4 comments pakistan
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures 52C. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/hotter-human-body-can-handle-pakistan-city-broils-worlds-highest/ 6555 comments worldnews
- Climate change could make cities 8C hotter https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/climate-change-could-make-cities-8c-hotter-scientists 30 comments worldnews
- America’s hottest city keeps getting hotter: How Phoenix is battling extreme heat https://www.fastcompany.com/90763919/in-phoenix-where-temperatures-continue-to-rise-a-race-against-time-to-weatherproof-the-city 112 comments environment
- Hotter than the human body can handle: Pakistan city broils in world’s highest temperatures | Streets are deserted and residents hunker down as best they can to weather temperatures that can top 52C (126F) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/hotter-human-body-can-handle-pakistan-city-broils-worlds-highest/ 4 comments worldnews
- Climate change is going to increase the severity of air pollution, scientists say. A new study has shown that a hotter globe had more stagnant air, and this traps pollution over cities http://www.nature.com/news/air-quality-to-suffer-with-global-warming-1.15442 10 comments science
- Oh the irony of this one....As negotiators from nearly 200 countries met in Cancun to strategize ways to keep the planet from getting hotter, the temperature in the seaside Mexican city plunged to a 100-year record low of 54° F. http://theweek.com/article/index/210181/irony-alert-the-unusually-chilly-global-warming-summit 12 comments worldnews
- Hotter than Dubai: US cities at risk of Middle Eastern temperatures by 2100 | Climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/us-cities-risk-middle-eastern-temperatures-by-2100-climate-crisis 124 comments climate
- ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat 88 comments energy
- ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat 10 comments climate
- ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat 47 comments environment
- ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 106 comments environment
- ‘It’s unbearable’: in ever-hotter US cities, air conditioning is no longer enough https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/air-conditioning-protect-extreme-heat?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other 469 comments climate
- Study found urbanisation was linked to poorer diversity, and this link was stronger in cities that were warmer and had less vegetation throughout. As climate change drives hotter temperatures, the researchers say they are concerned more mammals will struggle to survive in more cities. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02166-x 5 comments science
- How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/28/cities-extreme-heat-adaptation-heat-officers/ 4 comments environment
- The past five years have already been the hottest on record for our planet, but based on new projections published Tuesday, it's going to get a lot hotter for the 250m people living in North American cities | By 2080, many cities will probably experience "novel climates with no modern equivalent" https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/12/health/climate-change-cities-projected-temperatures-study/index.html 15 comments worldnews
- Why the City Is (Usually) Hotter than the Countryside: The smoothness of the landscape and the local climate—not the materials of the concrete jungle—govern the urban heat island effect, a new study finds http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/city-hotter-countryside-urban-heat-island-science-180951985/ 5 comments science
- How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers | As climate change causes summer temperatures to soar, heat-focused officials are working to adapt their cities for a harsher future https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/28/cities-extreme-heat-adaptation-heat-officers/ 5 comments climate
- Over the last several decades, extreme heat events around the world—particularly in the North American Southwest—have gotten hotter, occurred more frequently, and lasted longer. These trends pose significant health risks to the growing number of people making cities like Las Vegas home http://www.dri.edu/newsroom/news-releases/5837-researchers-identify-connection-between-more-frequent-intense-heat-events-and-deaths-in-las-vegas 7 comments science
- Climate change could make cities 8C hotter - scientists - Combination of carbon emissions and ‘urban heat island’ effect of concrete and asphalt gives rise to worst-case scenario by end of 21st century https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/climate-change-could-make-cities-8c-hotter-scientists?cmp=share_androidapp_%ED%81%B4%EB%A6%BD%EB%B3%B4%EB%93%9C%EC%97%90_%EB%B3%B5%EC%82%AC 85 comments worldnews