Apartments built to today’s standards could be too hot for future comfort for about four weeks a year in Redfern and more than seven weeks in Penrith.
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A new study has shown that more vegetation is not automatically better.
Some parts of the world are warming far faster than other, but even within the same city some neighbourhoods are exposed and suffer more than others.
Traffic can be a significant heat source in cities – yet is often overlooked in concerns about rising urban temperatures.
Extreme heat already kills millions. New research shows how today’s emissions choices will determine how many more may face dangerous heatwaves this century.
Woody meadows can create green corridors in urban landscapes at much less cost than traditional methods. Now keen gardeners can plant their own.
Urban green spaces should be better managed to provide places too cool off for the most underserved communities.
Cities are seeking low-cost ways to ease the heat island effect. Researchers found benefits and trade-offs in two popular options, but they vary by city and even neighborhood.
The lush urban forest in northwest Philadelphia helps cool the city and provides other environmental protections.
New research underscores the need to counter the effects of urban growth on drought by ensuring cities have enough green spaces to keep them liveable.
Mapping daily temperature variations across the US revealed stark differences between wealthy and poor neighborhoods, and large differences by race.
The answer depends in part on where you live. If it’s extremely hot and humid, the health risks are much higher.
Western Sydney residents whose homes often get hotter inside than outside during heatwaves have learnt to be resourceful in adapting to the increasing heat.
The pilot project opening in Sydney will use the best available evidence to keep vulnerable people cool on the hottest of days.
The loss of so many trees in Sydney’s Castle Cove represents the theft of environmental benefits and services from future generations of Australians.
A new report lays out steps communities can take to help their residents survive heat waves as the risk of dangerous temperatures rises.
The new city bears a colonial name and there are questions about locating it in the hottest part of Sydney, but we are also seeing all 3 tiers of government work together in an innovative way.
Very hot days in Western Sydney are typically 5 degrees hotter than parts of the city close to the coast and are becoming more common, but only in the west. Four climate drivers explain the difference.
Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change.
In 2015, 6,700 premature deaths were caused by urban heat – this can be reduced by a third by planting more trees.
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Professor, Social Design, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Human Geography and Urban Studies School of Social Sciences/ Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Professor, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban Science, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Economics, Australia Director - Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA), James Cook University
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Professor in Urban Horticulture, The University of Melbourne
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