Hot weather kills more Americans yearly on average than floods, tornadoes or hurricanes. Three scholars explain how cities can prepare and help residents stay cool.
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Australian houses are not designed and built for the realities of climate change
Everyone has a different ideal temperature at any given time. It could be more comfortable to monitor people’s body temperatures and adjust heating and cooling in response.
Domestic cats spend a quarter of their waking hours grooming. But that tongue action on the fur does more than keep fur clean – it also helps keep a cat cool.
Dairy cows are sensitive to heat, so farmers cool them down with sprinklers and fans. Researchers are designing better, more efficient systems to keep cows comfortable through hot California summers.
Extreme heat divides people from the environment and from each other. So with the rapid densification of our cities, what kind of legacies are we building for future generations?
Our cities are getting hotter. Luckily, as a built environment, we can actually do something about it.
Before you spend up on heating and cooling, here are a few simple retrofits to try first.
As the weather heats up, Australian households won’t just be cranking up the air conditioning for themselves. Some households will also be turning it on for their dogs or cats.
Bigger houses take more energy to build them, and use more energy.
From solar canopies to wind towers, Masdar City provides a living laboratory for the latest sustainable design and technology.
Sweating it out through hot summer nights? Here are some tips when you’re looking for something to cool you down.
If you work in an office, chances are you or the person sitting next to you has grumbled about it being too hot or cold.
Heat cost Australia nearly A$7 billion in 2014, which is bad news given climate forecasts of hotter and more frequent heatwaves.
Making and keeping things cold is one of the big challenges of the next decade.
Top contributors
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Scientist in Energy, Climate and the Environment, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Professor, Social Design, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Associate Professor of Exercise Physiology, Mississippi State University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
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Duncan Mitchell is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford
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A&S Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Innovation in Social Science, Boston University
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Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Professor of Heat & Health; Director of Heat & Health Research Incubator; Director of Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, University of Sydney
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Professor of Environmental Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice