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The Guardian

Southern California swelters as late-season heatwave smothers region

October 3, 2026

Hoodline

San Carlos Classroom Hits 89 Degrees as San Diego AC Woes Boil Over

September 12, 2026

Hoodline

Torrance Schools Swelter as $520 Million AC Bond Fails to Reach the Ballot

September 12, 2026

Axios

Extreme heat is rewriting the job of state government

September 8, 2026

Iowa PBS

The Hidden Cost of Extreme Heat, From Cities to Cornfields

September 8, 2026

Science Blog

Los Angeles coated its streets with a gray reflective layer to fight extreme heat, and the pavement itself really did run more than 10 degrees cooler, but the people walking on it felt hotter, because the heat hadn't gone anywhere — it was bouncing straight up into their bodies

September 7, 2026

Spectrum News 1

Angelenos work to beat the heat

August 25, 2026

Shade in the UK

In the Hot Seat with Dr. Kelly Turner

August 13, 2026

Los Angeles Times

This common ‘heat wave mistake’ could harm your health as temperatures soar over 95 degrees this weekend

July 31, 2026

Los Angeles Times

SoCal has had ‘so many heat waves,’ but this next one is a doozy: What to know

July 30, 2026

Grist

Is it getting too hot for summer school?

July 29, 2026

BBC

Life in a heat dome: The American West is figuring out how to keep cool

July 10, 2026

National Geographic

How cities are fighting back against the 'heat island effect'

June 22, 2026

Los Angeles Times

Emergency room visits during heat waves available to the public in ‘near-real time’ in L.A. County

June 4, 2026

Western City

‘Heat is going to be the great un-equalizer,’ warn experts and city officials in the Inland Empire

June 1, 2026

NPR

NPR News Now

May 25, 2026

Torched

Cool streets

April 30, 2026

Newsweek

Experts Warn Severe Change To Weather Coming: ‘Risky Conditions’

April 3, 2026

CalMatters

California is spending hundreds of millions on heat. Will it ever be a public health priority?

March 19, 2026

KABC

Heat wave blasts Southern California

March 19, 2026

PBS

Living with Climate Change Means Confronting Our Fears | Climate California | Full Episode 5

February 10, 2026

LAist

Southern California is getting hotter. LA County now has a heat action plan

February 3, 2026

Coachella Valley Independent

Creating Shade: The Goal of the Eastern Coachella Valley Shade Equity Master Plan Is to Help Low-Income Farmworkers and Their Families Stay Cool

December 23, 2025

UCLA Newsroom

UCLA Connects: 9 ways scholarship and service benefited campus, LA and the world in 2025

December 19, 2025

Interesting Engineering

The space-based heat maps changing how engineers fix cities

December 10, 2025

UCLA Newsroom

The Top 25 Bruinventions of the 21st Century (So Far)

November 19, 2025

Time

America’s Schools Weren’t Built For the Climate Era. Now, Some Are Adapting

October 2, 2025

Los Angeles Magazine

Planting Shade: Cooling Down L.A. Before The 2028 Olympic Games

August 14, 2025

CoStar

Los Angeles throws different kinds of shade at city heat before the Olympics

August 14, 2025

Jacobin

Heat Kills. Trump Has Ensured There Will Be More Victims.

August 13, 2025

EurWeb

Disadvantaged (Black/Brown) Communities to Face Severe Heat and Energy Challenges by 2050 – New Report Reveals

August 12, 2025

Slate

Scared of Our Own Shadows

July 23, 2025

USA News Hub

All Praise Shade

July 22, 2025

Knowridge

UCLA’s new outdoor tent lowers temperatures by 10 degrees

July 16, 2025

MSN

Beyond shade: Researchers improve radiant cooling to make outdoor temperatures feel cooler

July 15, 2025

MSN

US cooling tent cuts radiant temperature by 10°F without blocking the view

July 15, 2025

The New York Times

In a Hotter World, We Need to Get Over Our Fear of Shadows

July 11, 2025

DNYUZ

We Need to Learn to Love Tall Buildings

July 11, 2025

Daily Commercial News

Summers in the city cry out for more trees

July 10, 2025

Connection Newspapers

Equitable Urban Tree Canopy: What’s Your Shade Score?

July 2, 2025

WDSU News

Trump cuts could set back federal response to extreme heat, expert says

June 26, 2025

Interesting Engineering

World’s first biodegradable cooling film drops energy use by 20% without electricity

June 24, 2025

LAist

New California tool ranks extreme heat danger by neighborhood. Here's how it works

June 23, 2025

Big News Network

Swiss Re SONAR 2025 Global Heat Kills 480,000/Yr

June 20, 2025

Time

What’s at Stake This Summer As Trump Targets Heat and Climate Experts

June 16, 2025

Next City

The Weekly Wrap: Tulsa’s $105 Million Reparations Plan

June 6, 2025

LA Post

Scientists just solved the mystery of why some streets are deadly hot

June 5, 2025

Forbes

Collapsing of forest eco-systems could destabilise economies, study finds

June 5, 2025