Rising heat

Updated: Tue, 24 Jul 2018

Awnings to aircon: Heat threat drives city innovation in pandemic year

As cities battle COVID-19, racial inequalities and rising heat risks, they are experimenting with a range of clever solutions

Ice age: Off-grid ways to turn down rising heat for the poor
From solar-powered ice-makers to fridges, entrepreneurs and scientists are coming up with cheap, low-carbon cooling technologies suitable for developing countries By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 22 May 2020
Beat the heat? India struggles to keep cool during lockdown
Lowering risks from blistering summer heat may be difficult this year with most of the country's 1.3 billion people forced to stay indoors By Annie Banerji | Tue, 12 May 2020
Cooler, greener: Egyptian architects seek antidotes to rising heat
Hotter temperatures are making life harder in Egypt - but low-energy cooling designs could help By Menna A. Farouk | Wed, 4 Mar 2020
Life-threatening extreme heat set to trap millions indoors by 2060
Farming and commerce likely to be disrupted in countries with deadly heat and humidity By Thin Lei Win | Fri, 8 May 2020
It's official: India just experienced its hottest decade on record
The country's heatwave death toll was 350 last year, with many others dying from other extreme weather likely linked to climate change, officials say By Annie Banerji | Tue, 7 Jan 2020
'A sly thief': Rising heat steals jobs and lives in eastern India
Heatwaves - set to worsen as climate change strengthens - are cutting working hours and income, with the poor struggling to stay cool By Manipadma Jena | Mon, 25 Nov 2019
Climate change set to make extreme heat more common - and costly
Dangerous heat and humidity could affect 1.2 billion people by the turn of the century if global warming goes unchecked, scientists say By Laurie Goering | Wed, 25 Mar 2020
Trees alone can't win fight against soaring heat, cities warned
Popular projects to plant more trees in cities may not protect residents from soaring and often deadly heat, say researchers By Zoe Tabary | Wed, 12 Feb 2020
Planners urged to look beyond history to judge climate risks
Predictions based on past weather extremes are dramatically underestimating growing threats of extreme heat and rain linked to warming, researchers find By Megan Rowling | Wed, 18 Mar 2020
Extreme heat hitting rich and poor harder, climate index shows
Heatwaves put Japan and Germany high up the list of countries suffering the worst losses from extreme weather By Megan Rowling | Wed, 4 Dec 2019
Aircon for all? Hotter world faces risk of 'cooling poverty'
As extreme heat grows with climate change, finding cheaper and greener cooling is crucial to protect both people and the climate, experts say By Laurie Goering | Tue, 10 Sep 2019
Baking cities advance 'slowly' in race against rising heat threat
"People should not and do not need to be dying in heatwaves," says co-author of new report on climate change and health By Laurie Goering | Fri, 15 Nov 2019
Europe's July heatwave 'extremely unlikely' without climate change
Global warming is intensifying heatwaves, boosting sizzling temperatures in Europe last month, a study says By Megan Rowling | Fri, 2 Aug 2019
Hotter but less deadly? Preparedness may cut Europe heatwave toll
Deaths from the health impacts of June's extreme heat are likely to have been reduced after governments learned lessons from a 2003 heatwave By Megan Rowling | Tue, 2 Jul 2019
India's Kerala to give workers a siesta to help beat the heat
Kerala's disaster management authority has issued sunstroke warnings for the next three months By Roli Srivastava | Wed, 6 Mar 2019
From tennis to cricket, climate change turns up heat on sports
As the planet heats up, competing in - or even watching - many outdoor sports is becoming increasingly challenging By Lin Taylor | Wed, 24 Jul 2019
Rising heat stress could cost 80 mln jobs by 2030: UN
Global warming of 1.5C could lead to a 2.2% drop in working hours - and cost the global economy $2.4 trillion, the UN says By Lin Taylor | Mon, 1 Jul 2019
Malawi court suspends wearing of wigs and gowns amid heatwave
'The big suspect of this heatwave is climate change,' says the country's director of climate change and meteorological services By Charles Pensulo | Fri, 1 Nov 2019
Indian cities urged to develop heat action plans
'Cities bear the brunt of a heatwave because they are so densely populated, and because the effects are more pronounced' By Rina Chandran | Fri, 14 Jun 2019
Rising heat scorches recovery efforts in cyclone-hit Indian state
More than 10 million have been affected by the worst summer cyclone in the state in 43 years, according to government data By Anuradha Nagaraj | Mon, 20 May 2019
Cold comfort: Countries get help to cool down in a warming world
By 2050, energy use for cooling is projected to triple, while in hotter countries such as India, China, Brazil, and Indonesia it could grow five-fold, experts say By Sonia Elks | Wed, 24 Apr 2019
Americans in cool states misjudge threat from rising heat waves
Without air conditioning, people in northern U.S. states may be at high risk as heat waves worsen, researchers say By Sebastien Malo | Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Heatwave threatens to slash harvests in drought-hit Zimbabwe
Unusually high temperatures, on top of a lack of rainfall, are hitting crops and livestock, officials say By Lungelo Ndhlovu | Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Warming waters heat up fishing costs along India’s Malabar Coast
Climate change is making an already difficult search for fish harder, boosts costs for fuel, ice and nets By Colin Daileda | Mon, 25 Feb 2019

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