Climate change, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels, pushed temperatures so high last year that scientists were astounded when 2023 became the hottest year on record. Communities like Oklahoma ...

Kids cool off in the Rainbow Pool at the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., during the summer of 2023, which was Earth's hottest on record. U.S. government agencies and scientists will join ...

The Reno-Sparks Heat Mapping Project team is thrilled to announce the successful completion of the community’s temperature mapping campaign and the release of the campaign’s data and modeled ...

Sustainability planners unveiled preliminary reports of a federally funded campaign to map extreme heat across Oklahoma City — information likely to influence city planning and public policy for years ...

There is a growing amount of evidence to suggest that heat waves are the deadliest weather event, according to one Utah science teacher who is heading up a local heat-mapping campaign. Rob Wilson said ...

The sun was coming up at 6 a.m. when J’reyesha Brannon and her partner Jonathan Wilson climbed into their car to drive a loop through the Mt. Tabor, Gateway and Lents neighborhoods in Southeast and ...

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