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Where Has Vienna's 'Coolness' Gone?

Naz Küçüktekin

October 07, 2024 |

Transitions Online |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Austria, Vienna

Vienna’s cool streets provide a safe outdoor space to escape the heat in the summer. The city used a heat map and population data to select streets with high concentrations of residents who are particularly vulnerable to extreme heat, like children and the elderly. At the selected locations, traffic was limited and asphalt was covered with turf, benches, mist machines, and water fountains.

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How to build an AC that will get the world through hotter summers

Allyson Chiu Emily Wright

October 05, 2024 |

The Washington Post |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: India, Thane

Innovators are developing new air conditioning units to keep people cool as temperatures and humidity rise without contributing to greenhouse gas emissions. Alongside improved energy efficiency, the new tech focuses on sensing and reducing humidity in real-time and adjusting itself as humidity fluctuates throughout the day.

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Sweet watermelon turns sour amid climate change

Sadiqur Rahman

September 14, 2024 |

Bangladesh First |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Farmers in Bangladesh are switching from shrimp aquaculture to growing rice and watermelon during different seasons to increase their incomes and have more consistent harvests as they deal with the impacts of climate change.

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Jos Nigeria: How residents fight cold

Yahuza Bawage

August 24, 2024 |

African Change Stories |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Jos, Plateau

To help locals survive through the area’s cold climate, one local began selling boiling water to residents so they can use it for bathing, cooking and whatever else they may need it for, to save them time and reduce the health risks associated with using cold water.

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An air conditioning law, the first in its region, changed tenants' rights in this Maryland county

Ysabelle Kempe

August 22, 2024 |

Smart Cities Dive |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Maryland

To protect tenants from extreme heat, lawmakers in Montgomery County, Maryland, passed a policy requiring landlords to provide air conditioning capable of cooling units to at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit from June through September.

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How Frankfurt Harnesses Local Wind Currents for Urban Cooling

Jana Randow Laura Millan

August 03, 2024 |

Bloomberg |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Germany, Frankfurt

Frankfurt is changing the way it designs its buildings to adapt to extreme heat. The city works with urban climatology researchers to ensure new housing and skyscrapers won’t impact the wind corridors that keep residents cool, and it promotes practices like installing green roofs.

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Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

Martha Pskowski Jenaye Johnson

July 19, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

The government-funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program is meant to help households across the United States keep afford the cost of heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.

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Chicago's "People's Cooling Army" Is Giving Tenants Free Air Conditioners

Lucas Frisancho

July 16, 2024 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

A group of volunteers in Chicago called the People’s Cooling Army repairs air conditioning units and installs them for free for low-income tenants, as the city continues to experience extreme heat.

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Farmworkers in the US cultivate their own heat safety standards

Carey L. Biron

July 09, 2024 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

The nonprofit Coalition of Immokalee Workers started the Fair Food Program to appeal directly to consumers and large brands about worker safety while policies and regulations are held up in government processes. The initiative strikes deals with large companies that pledge to protect farm workers in a variety of ways, particularly stringent heat protections as heat records are repeatedly increased.

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Keeping Cities Cool in a Warmer Future

Alexandra Ossola Jon Emont

June 14, 2024 |

Wall Street Journal |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Singapore

Researchers of the Cooling Singapore project are using huge amounts of data to build a detailed digital twin of the city that they can use to test how effective new methods of combatting extreme heat would be. It's a digital representation of Singapore that makes predictions based on data like traffic, weather, electricity demand, and where green spaces are.

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