A "smoky umbrella" blocked the sun's rays and worsened air pollution in New York and New Jersey during the event. Here's how.

The air in the city is unhealthy for some groups because of a fire that has been burning in the Pine Barrens since Tuesday.

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An urban heat island is an area within a city that is significantly warmer than its surroundings. This phenomenon is often ...

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Northwestern Europe saw intense and prolonged heat waves in 2022 and 2023, leading to a high number of heat-related deaths. Several European countries, including Austria, France, Hungary, Slovenia, ...

"They've recognised that our area needs this information and we are an area, based on urban heat island effect and heat sink, that is worse affected in Sydney compared to other places." ...

Researchers on Long Island have discovered a breakthrough that ... can make the cells become malignant," Tonelli told FOX 5 New York. Bill Reindl, 68, was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic ...

Depending on where you are, this very well could be due to the urban heat island effect and the complex interaction of storms at the lower levels of the atmosphere. An urban heat island occurs ...

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“After we got started, within a year, the Urban Heat Island map came out and the Food Desert Map came out. That gave us a reason to exist and a problem to solve," said Lisa Ortega with Nevada Plant ...