A Lancet report released last week found that since the 1990s, heat-related deaths have increased 23% to 546,000 annually as ...

A research team at UT San Antonio is trying to help find solutions to this problem on the city’s west side with a pilot ...

A new study from researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds that common fungal species may be ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are using AI and digital twin technology, or digital replicas of physical homes, to study potential renovation options that could lessen heat's ...

On World Cities Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on national and city leaders to transform urban areas into ...

Unchecked tree cutting and urban expansion are endangering Pakistan’s climate resilience, causing a ripple effect on health ...

It’s summer, and it’s been hot, even in northern cities such as Boston. But not everyone is hit with the heat in the same way, even within the same neighborhood. Take two streets in Boston at 4:30 p.m ...

As Ghana intensifies its fight against climate change, much of the attention has centered on flood control and drainage ...

The entire planet is warming due to human-caused climate change, but the built environment further amplifies both average temperatures and extreme heat in cities. According to the U.S. Environmental ...

The Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) has unveiled a new tool: the Healthy Urban Design Index (HUDI). The HUDI is a composite index that evaluates 917 European cities based on 13 ...