Tiny Urban Voids Could Cool Historic Cities by Several Degrees, Study Finds
Researchers in Catania have developed a protocol that identifies tiny sealed urban voids and shows through microclimate simulation that converting ...
Tag: urban heat island
Kabul’s Hidden Crisis: Four Out of Five City Zones Face Three or More Disasters at Once
A new geospatial study finds that about 80 percent of Kabul is exposed to three or more overlapping environmental hazards, ...
Two Urban Climate Models Put to the Test in Singapore’s Tropical High-Rise Streets
A first-of-its-kind validation study shows that the PALM-4U and urbanMicroclimateFOAM models can accurately reproduce temperature, humidity and radiant heat in ...
Cities Don’t Just Get Soaked by Extreme Rain—They Help Brew It
A major review in Nature Cities synthesizes evidence that cities actively intensify short-duration extreme rainfall through heat, roughness and aerosols, ...
Istanbul’s Fog Is Far More Local Than Anyone Thought, 12-Year Study Reveals
A 12-year analysis of aviation observations across three Istanbul airports shows that fog in the megacity is a highly localized, ...
How Big Must a City Park Be to Cool Its Surroundings? Satellite Data Reveal a Surprising Ceiling
A satellite analysis of 456 green patches in Lucknow, India, shows that urban cooling rises with patch size up to ...
Riding Through the Furnace: How Extreme Heat Is Breaking India’s Auto-Rickshaw Drivers
A new study of 107 auto-rickshaw drivers in Satara, India, documents widespread heat-related illness and income loss, revealing how economic ...
AI Maps Exactly How Far Urban Lakes Cool City Streets
A machine learning study of 25 lakes in Da Nang, Vietnam, quantifies urban lake cooling with SHAP interpretability, finding the ...
Neighborhood Heat May Undermine Surgical Recovery, Study of 700,000 Patients Finds
A study of nearly 700,000 surgical patients links intense urban heat islands to significantly higher odds of complications, readmission, and ...
Two Decades of Satellite Images Reveal How an Ethiopian City Is Quietly Cooking Itself
A twenty-year Landsat analysis of Adama, Ethiopia, shows built-up land surging 43 percent while wetlands vanished and rising minimum surface ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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