The local climate zone (LCZ) scheme provides a standard method to conduct urban heat island studies, in which urban landscapes are classified into different LCZs according to urban structures, land ...

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Philadelphia feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on ...

Stacker compiled statistics about how people in Harrisburg feel about climate change using data from the Yale Program on ...

The heatwave that brought 100-degree temperatures to the Philadelphia region in June also brought warnings that the air ...

Urbanization has increased the surface urban heat island (SUHI) effect. This study uses local climate zones (LCZ) and urban built environment characteristics (UBECs) to explore the factors influencing ...

Children living in the country’s largest cities are disproportionately threatened by the effects of extreme heat ...

We know that the warming climate, driven largely by fossil fuel emissions, are intensifying hurricanes. But what about ...

Pennsylvania homes go through it all—snowstorms in February, humidity in July, and temperature swings that can vary by 40 degrees in just a few days. In that kind of climate, your roof isn’t just a ...

Penn State applied for a grant through the climate-smart program along with other organizations in Pennsylvania such as the American Farmland Trust, Dairy Farmers of America, Maple Hill Creamery, ...

In 2020, Dr. Deborah Gentile helped lead a study that showed children living near major sources of industrial pollution in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny County were diagnosed with asthma at triple ...

“This study shines a light on yet another way human activities are disrupting the climate system that will come back to bite us all with more unprecedented and destructive summer weather events ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating… ...