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This study explores how smaller cities in California plan for extreme heat, revealing gaps in planning capacity and preparedness.

Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability
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This U.S.-based report provides risk assessment frameworks and testing strategies to curb COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools, aiming to protect health while ensuring safe in-person learning through evidence-based mitigation and testing protocols.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Duke University
Rockefeller Foundation, the
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A study in Charleston County, SC, applies active learning to accelerate and enhance compound flood risk assessments, reducing computation and improving damage accuracy by addressing multiple interacting flood drivers and sea level rise.

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, the
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The report reveals how U.S. corporate utilities fuel climate chaos and inequality through fossil fuel expansion, shutoffs during extreme heat, and opposition to renewables, worsening risks like heatwaves and wildfires across multiple states.

Center for Biological Diversity
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Using the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) data from 2021 to 2023, this study compares heat-related illness (HRI) in urban and rural areas of the U.S.

The Journal of Climate Change and Health
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Reinforcement learning improves climate adaptation for Manhattan’s flood risks by dynamically optimizing seawall and retreat strategies under sea-level rise.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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This study applies the City-HEAT tool to explore how Baltimore can adapt to extreme heat through urban heat island (UHI) mitigation.

Nature Scientific Reports
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This report outlines over 100 actionable strategies for frontline communities' water and sanitation systems in the face of intensifying climate impacts while addressing systemic inequities.

Pacific Institute, the

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