Heat

Green Impact Your eyes and emotions help shape your sense of temperature, study finds

Study shows greener, more attractive bus stops make riders feel cooler and more comfortable, even when heat levels stay high.

Hannah Shavit-Weiner

Discoveries A heat-loving amoeba smashes the temperature record for complex life Rebecca Shavit

Green Impact Scientists find trapped heat beneath Greenland — impacting ice sheet motion and future sea level rise Mac Oliveau

Green Impact Harvard scientists tell a ‘hot’ story about beetles and plant sex Mac Oliveau

Discoveries Scientists discover how extreme heat forged the world’s continents Joseph Shavit

Green Impact Revolutionary smart windows offer real-time control over light, heat and glare

Green Impact Greener cities could prevent over a million heat deaths, study finds

Innovations Revolutionary heat pump directly converts electricity into heat

Green Impact Scientists selectively bred corals to boost their heat tolerance

Green Impact Study reveals link between global warming and rising sea levels

Discoveries Common plastics could passively cool and heat buildings

Discoveries Sunlight-trapping device generates temperatures over 1000°C – decarbonizing energy-intensive industries

Discoveries Eco-friendly house paint reduces heating and cooling costs by 36%, study finds

Discoveries Revolutionary technology can heat and cool your house at half the current price

Discoveries How hot is ‘too hot’ for humans? Groundbreaking research finds our limits

Discoveries Groundbreaking paper-thin laminate turns walls or furniture into an energy-efficient heater

Discoveries Innovative solar reactor efficiently generates oxygen, hydrogen and usable heat