City trees cut the heat island by nearly half. The average resident gets 0.15°C
A global estimate across 8,919 urban areas finds both numbers are true at once — and that the cooling lands hardest in the places that need it least.
India's heat stress, mapped district by district: the hours shift, not just the peaks
A 43-year analysis at hourly resolution finds a 3.3% rise in average heat stress exposure duration across districts, with the change varying by time of day, season and region.
Temperature was linked to 3.88% of Puerto Rico's deaths — and cold did more than heat
A nine-year case time-series across every municipality finds both ends of the temperature range raise mortality risk on a Caribbean island, with the burden spread unevenly across towns.
Two studies link heat and drought to domestic violence, and disagree on the details
In New Orleans, five-day heat waves raised domestic violence calls by 7%. Across 42 low- and middle-income countries, drought raised intimate partner violence risk — but its interaction with heat was negative.
Germany's heat alerts show no average benefit — until the cities are told apart
A 15-city study found a pooled relative risk of exactly 1.00 for heat warnings. Adjusting for green space, population and density turned it into 0.85. Both numbers are in the same paper.
Australia's heatwave deaths mapped to 2,288 communities, and they cluster
About 1,009 deaths a year were attributable to heatwaves in 2016-2019. Queensland and New South Wales carried rates more than three times Western Australia's.