Extreme heat is the deadliest natural hazard in the United States. Between 1992 and 2021, it killed an average of 148 people every year. In the same 30-year period, floods killed about 88 annually ...

What is it? This not-to-be-missed reflective technology is flashier than traditional outdoor gear. The lining composed of small silver dots built to reflect and retain heat energy, artfully concealed ...

Urban heat islands, created by human activity concentrations, are a causal factor in climate change and Earth’s increasing temperature. Retro-reflective materials could be used to mitigate the ...

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — For 20-year-old Mayank Yadav, riding a crowded bus in the summer months in this western Indian city can be like sitting in an oven. That makes it a treat when he steps off and ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. When the scientists aboard the International Space Station ...

Work crews sprayed a high tech, heat-resistant coating over the playground at James Workman Middle School in Cathedral City. It's an infrared reflective ceramic surface, similar to what was used on ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The city is a growing paradox. Humanity needs its many efficiencies: people living ...

On a typical summer day, it might be 10-12 degrees cooler in leafy sections of Boston than it is downtown, because unshaded pavement and roofs absorb and radiate so much heat. Reducing pavement or ...

LOS ANGELES — Street vendor José Damián has lived in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Pacoima for the past five years and has felt temperatures hit 105 degrees as he’s pushed his cart of Mexican street ...

Columbia Sportswear is providing its proprietary heat insulation technology used in outdoor apparel to help protect a spacecraft against harsh temperatures for an upcoming commercial mission to the ...

Cities across the U.S. have found relief from this summer’s record-setting heat with the help of technologies that shield roofs, pavement and other surfaces from the sun’s scorching rays. Some of ...

Columbia Sportswear has launched a line of apparel with a fabric that captures solar heat. The new “Omni-Heat Black Dot technology," Columbia said, is "the outdoor industry’s first external thermal ...