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Weather
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Earth’s “Third Pole” and Its Role in Global Climate
Lake Ximencuo, a glacial moraine lake, sits among mountain peaks on the Tibetan Plateau. Credit: Tenace10/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0…
As The Climate Changes, Architects And Engineers Need To Design Buildings Differently
In the past seven years, four major disasters have caused serious disruptions in the Northeast and Midwest United…
4 Tech Must-Haves for Extreme Weather Cities
Cities across the U.S. and Canada experienced bitter winter temps at the end of 2018 and into 2019.…
What Kind Of Summer Will We Experience In 2019?
Since time immemorial, it’s always been the desire of man to predict the future and this is no…
Cities Change How Much It Rains & Where Storms Hit
Urban development changes storm patterns and rainfall amounts, two new papers suggest. The research highlights the need for…
Is Sydney’s Hot Day Runs A Pattern For Its Future
Sydney is hot. Well technically, it’s persistently warm and lacking cool outbreaks, but this run of weather is…
Is A 100-Year Global Record Enough To Convince Naysayers?
Average global temperature was 1.07C hotter – beating last month’s previous record increase. The global temperature in March…
The Internet Predicts Interesting 2016 Events
It’s the end of 2015, and many are using the occasion to look back on the major moments…
How Wellington Is Redefining What A Cool Windy City Is
The wind speed in this breeziest of cities once hit 154mph just a few miles from the centre,…
13 Reasons Why London Is Better
Sure, London’s got its problems (in fact, by a strange quirk of fate, it has precisely 99 of…
How Your City Is Solving Global Warming
Cities may only occupy about 2% of the world’s habitable land, but they are big drivers of global…
What Boston’s Snow Crisis Can Teach Us About Solving Problems In New Ways
Cities must learn to leverage more than just the traditional power of their governments. It’s like a math…
Can Melbourne Lower Its Temperature By 7 Degrees?
The Australian city is using trees and water to fight the urban heat island effect. MELBOURNE, Australia —…
What’s The World’s Coldest City?
Yellowknife in Canada, where windchill regularly takes the temperature below -30C? Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, where you have to…
World’s Cities Experiencing More Heatwaves
Number of extremely hot days a year has increased in hundreds of cities since the 1970s years, with…
Dealing With Blizzards In Major US Cities
Whether two inches or two feet, snowfall can wreak havoc on a city – as residents of Atlanta…
Cities Are Key To Fighting Climate Change
Urban areas will be disproportionately impacted by rising sea levels and severe weather. Luckily, they’re leading the resilience…