(NEXSTAR/WKRN) – Does it feel like a totally different climate when you go across town? It may be the urban heat island effect. The way a city is designed can make hot weather feel even worse. The ...

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...

This is an urbanization map of the U.S., derived from city lights data. Legened: urban = red, peri-urban = yellow. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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Early one May morning in 1927 researcher Wilhelm Schmidt attached a mercury thermometer to his car door and drove around Vienna for three hours, recording temperatures. His resulting thermal maps ...