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To Reduce Mortality From High Heat in Cities, a New Study Recommends Trees

The paper’s senior author says it stands at the “nexus of the climate crisis, urban forestry, health and urban planning.”

By Danish Bajwa

Pakistani men rest in the shade of trees during a heatwave in Karachi on June 23, 2015. Credit: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images
An iceberg calving from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf in February 2021. Credit: Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2021

Antarctic Researchers Report an Extraordinary Marine Heatwave That Could Threaten Antarctica’s Ice Shelves

By Bob Berwyn

Marine Corps Sgt. David E. Martin assists a veteran during his visit to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in 2014, during an event for unhoused veterans. Photo by Sgt. Alvin Williams Jr., courtesy of the U.S. Marine Corps.

Climate Change Makes Things Harder for Unhoused Veterans

By Sonner Kehrt, The War Horse

An aerial view shows the shores and the dam of the reservoir of the Saint-Peyres in Angles, southwestern France, on August 27, 2022. According to information collected by the observatory managed by the European Commission, the European continent has experienced a historic drought, the worst in nearly 500 years. The Global Drought Observatory (GDO) published a damning report on the current aridity in Europe on August 23, 2022. Credit: Lionel Bonaventure / AFP via Getty Images

Study Finds Global Warming Fingerprint on 2022’s Northern Hemisphere Megadrought

By Bob Berwyn

A bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

A woman buys ice cream ahead of a heat wave in downtown Chicago, the United States, on June 14, 2022. Credit: Vincent D. Johnson/Xinhua via Getty Images

Study Finds that Mississippi River Basin Could be in an ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ in 30 Years

By Keely Brewer, The Daily Memphian, and Eva Tesfaye, Harvest Public Media

A laborer quenches his thirst with water from a bottle on a street amid rising temperatures in New Delhi on May 27, 2020. Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images

Without Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions, Countries in the Tropics and Subtropics Could Face ‘Extreme’ Heat Danger by 2100, a New Study Concludes

By Victoria St. Martin

A young female walrus nicknamed Freya rests on a boat in Frognerkilen, Oslo Fjord, Norway, on July 19, 2022. Credit: Erik Schrder/NTB/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Heat Indexes Soar, a Beloved Walrus is Euthanized in Norway, and Buildings Designed To Go Net-Zero

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Construction worker Joe Fitzpatrick keeps a towel around his neck to help him with the heat while working on the MBTA Green Line in Boston. Credit: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Too Hot to Work, Too Hot to Play

By James Pothen, Emma Foehringer Merchant, Grace van Deelen, Hannah Loss, Myriam Vidal, Rachel Rodriguez, Samantha Hurley

Rail passengers pass an electronic sign warning of 'Extremely hot weather' forecast for July 18 and 19, and advising commuters to only travel for essential journeys, at Kings Cross station in London on July 17, 2022. Credit: Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

How Is the Jet Stream Connected to Simultaneous Heat Waves Across the Globe?

By Leslie Hook, The Financial Times

This aerial view taken near Canazei on July 5, 2022 from a rescue helicopter shows the Punta Rocca glacier that collapsed on the mountain of Marmolada after a record-high temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded at the glacier's summit. The collapse of the glacier caused an avalanche which killed at least seven people. Credit: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty Images

More Mountain Glacier Collapses Feared as Heat Waves Engulf the Northern Hemisphere

By Bob Berwyn

Warming Trends: Chilling in a Heat Wave, Healthy Food Should Eat Healthy Too, Breeding Delays for Wild Dogs, and Three Days of Climate Change in Song

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In this picture taken on May 12, 2022, people drink water being distributed by volunteers along a street during a heatwave in Jacobabad, in the southern Sindh province. Credit: Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images

In Jacobabad, One of the Hottest Cities on the Planet, a Heat Wave Is Pushing the Limits of Human Livability

By Zoha Tunio

Two men sleep in a roadside bed during the heatwave in Kolkata, India on April 25, 2022. Maximum temperature was 38 degrees Celsius and minimum temperature in Kolkata was 28 degree Celsius according to an Indian Meteorological Department of Kolkata. Credit: Indranil Aditya/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Warmer Nights Caused by Climate Change Take a Toll on Sleep

By Victoria St. Martin

Residential buildings stand on the city skyline on April 10, 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. Credit: David Ramos/Getty Images

To Equitably Confront Climate Change, Cities Need to Include Public Health Agencies in Planning Adaptations

By Aydali Campa

A view of the defendant's table in a courtroom. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Telling Climate Stories Through the Courts, Icy Lakes Teeming with Life and Climate Change on the Self-Help Shelf

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A man stands by fans spraying air mixed with water to cool down along a street in Baghdad on June 30, 2021 amidst a severe heat wave. Credit: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images

Last Year’s Overall Climate Was Shaped by Warming-Driven Heat Extremes Around the Globe

By Bob Berwyn

Evacuated resident April Phillips wipes her face while watching a family dog at an evacuation center for the Dixie Fire at Lassen Community College in Susanville, California on Aug. 6, 2021. Phillips and her family were living in their cars and were told it would be at least 10 days before they could return home during the second-worst wildfire in California's history. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

The Year in Climate Photos

By Katelyn Weisbrod

President Joe Biden speaks during a conference call on climate change with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate on Sept. 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

By Liza Gross

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