PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — There’s a new Portland metro project focused on keeping people safe from unhealthy and sometimes deadly heat. Officials now have a heat mapping tool to help them make decisions ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An ambitious project starts Saturday, aimed at learning more about which neighborhoods in the Portland metro feel the most harmful effects of rising temperatures. One hundred ...

The sun was coming up at 6 a.m. when J’reyesha Brannon and her partner Jonathan Wilson climbed into their car to drive a loop through the Mt. Tabor, Gateway and Lents neighborhoods in Southeast and ...

OKLAHOMC CITY — With the extreme heat we will see across the metro Saturday, volunteers will be spending the day helping to create a heat map of Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City is 621 square miles and ...

An area of unincorporated Gwinnett County near Norcross is among 18 global communities selected to take part this summer in a program to map areas of extreme heat, the leading cause of weather-related ...

INDIANA, USA — In the summer, temperatures can vastly differ from in town to rural areas, even in a span of just a few miles. Different surfaces absorb and release heat at varying intensities. There ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Hundreds of volunteers hit the streets this weekend to map hot spots around Oklahoma City. However, with the hiccups in the weather, they faced challenges they weren’t expecting ...

The sun was coming up at 6 a.m. when J’reyesha Brannon and her partner Jonathan Wilson climbed into their car to drive a loop through the Mt. Tabor, Gateway and Lents neighborhoods in Southeast and ...

ASHEVILLE - Days like the sweltering ones that are baking the Asheville area this week, and headlines of record-heat around the country, bring the face of climate change and an ever-warming planet ...