The volunteers fanned out across cities from Boston to Honolulu this summer, with inexpensive thermal monitors resembling tiny periscopes attached to their vehicles to collect data on street-level temperatures.
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Heart Attack Patients Take Longer to Call Emergency When Symptoms Are Gradual
Heart attack symptoms can be gradual or abrupt and both situations are a medical emergency.
Topography Could Save Sensitive Saguaros as Climate Changes
By studying nearly five decades of data on more than 5,800 saguaros dotting Tumamoc Hill, researchers found that small variations in the hill’s topography might buffer saguaro populations from the impacts of climate change.
Keeping Pedestrians Cool Focus of First-Ever University of Guelph Research
Cities are likely to get hotter under global warming.
Forest Emits CO2 During Heat Wave
Forests absorb a lot of CO2 from the air in the summer, but during the heat wave at the end of July, forests in the Netherlands emitted CO2. This is shown by measurements taken by the University of Twente.
Strategic Mowing of Milkweed Can Help Monarch Butterflies
As odd as it may seem, mowing down milkweed can help monarch butterflies.