Street green space can help cool cities, but it will not be enough on its own A new IIASA-led study finds that expanding street green space can reduce urban heat stress in cities worldwide, but even ambitious greening efforts are unlikely to offset a significant share of the additional heat expected under climate change.

Expanding street green space can help reduce urban heat stress, but its cooling impact varies by location and is limited; comprehensive adaptation strategies remain essential for cities. doi.org/hbwh95

🌳⚡🌡️ Can greener streets help households use less electricity in hot weather?

Using metered electricity data (130k HHs in 2100 Italian municipalities), we find that when it's hot and cooling needs are high, it can. Paper in Energy Economics, w/ Enrica De Cian & Jacopo Lunghi doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Appello: usiamo "presentare / sottoporre un articolo a una rivista"! [3/3]

Sottomettere però è un verbo che in italiano significa "assoggettare, costringere, ridurre in stato di subordinazione", nei più disparati ambiti... :) [2/3]

E' in uso sempre più frequente, nel mondo della ricerca italiano, la dicitura "sottomettere un articolo", inglesismo del "submit an article". [1/3]

Very cool stuff! =)

"No imminent threat": U.S. Counterterrorism Center head resigns over Iran war Joe Kent said Israel goaded Trump into an unnecessary war.

And this is being said by a extreme right ultra-nationalist official!

www.axios.com/2026/03/17/j...

Jeff Bezos gestures with one hand while speaking, wearing a black polo shirt. A headline reads: "How Jeff Bezos Upended The Washington Post." Photo by Jeenah Moon for The New York Times.

Leadership shake-ups. Staff cuts. A push for the newsroom to double productivity with half its budget. Here is the inside story of how Jeff Bezos upended the Washington Post. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

🚨 A defining moment for global health data.

The termination of the #USAID-supported Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS: doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

📊 9,000+ studies

Looking forward to present my current research on "Temperature Shocks and Societal Responses" at today's @climes-swe.bsky.social Climate Impacts Conference together with @kornhuber.bsky.social and @giacfalk.bsky.social. Grateful for travel support IUGG.

Check out the programme: lnkd.in/ddyvsGAu

Piogge tossiche, aria irrespirabile.

Teheran è avvolta e sovrastata dai fumi tossici prodotti dagli incendi dei deposti di petrolio della città. Le riserve sono state bombardate dalle forze israeliane (come ufficialmente dichiarato). 1/6

AGU Denounces Trump Administration’s Repeal of the EPA Endangerment Finding In 1856, American scientist Eunice Foote made history by publishing the first academic paper demonstrating that carbon dioxide traps heat from the Sun, a discovery that laid the foundation for climate...

fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-denounce...

Cold and expensive v hot, cheap and eco-friendly: the contrasting histories of home heating in the UK and Sweden Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries.

theconversation.com/cold-and-exp...

Climate change and La Niña combine to create ‘perfect storm’ in deadly Southern Africa floods.

New research from @wwattribution.bsky.social shows that the intensity of heavy downpours has increased by 40% since preindustrial times, with some areas receiving over a year’s rain in just days 🧵

A consistent regional dataset of dissolved oxygen in the western Mediterranean Sea (2004–2023): CTD-O2WMED Abstract. The Mediterranean Sea is experiencing rapid environmental changes, underscoring the urgent need for high-quality, long-term datasets to quantify trends and assess impacts on biogeochemical c...

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Nobel Peace Price goes to María Corina Machado

Analysis: England’s most ethnically diverse areas are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat - Carbon Brief Neighbourhoods in England that are home to the most minority-ethnic people are 15 times more likely to face extreme heat than the least diverse areas

Environmental injustice at its finest

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Cool as ice!

The impact of air conditioning on residential electricity consumption across world countries We provide a first globally-relevant assessment of the electricity consumption consequences of households’ adaptation to ambient heat through air cond…

quality research you can also show off at the dinner table in scorched-earth mediterranean summer 🔥

killer work by my mates @giacfalk.bsky.social and @fpavanello.bsky.social!!!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cosa sono i “rifugi climatici” per proteggersi dal caldo - Il Post Per la prima volta anche le città italiane stanno pubblicando liste di spazi pubblici gratuiti in cui andare a ripararsi

Cooling shelters are finally becoming mainstream #heatwave #publicadaptation #climatechange #cities

www.ilpost.it/2025/07/02/r...

IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid ***

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Del genocidio en Gaza al bombardeo de Irán: Netanyahu arrastra al mundo hacia una escalada bélica.

Llamamos a una desescalada urgente, al respeto del derecho internacional, sanciones inmediatas al régimen israelí y una vía multilateral hacia una paz justa y duradera para todos los pueblos.

*NOW with open output yearly coordinate point-level data (2016-2023) for 358 world cities* at doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

🌳 New study: we analyze 190 cities (2016–2023) using satellite data & machine learning to estimate the Green View Index (GVI)
– Global street greenery down 0.3–0.5%/yr
– Inequalities within cities are stark
– Open-source model for real-time tracking
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
@iiasa.ac.at

🇫🇷 Power has been restored in southwest France after blackout, - AFP

🇪🇸 Spanish electricity grid estimates that service restoration will take between 6 and 10 hours.

Attending @egu.eu in Vienna this week? Interested in urban heat and sustainable adaptation strategy with urban greening? 🌡️ 🌳 Eager to discuss ongoing research trying to go beyond local case studies? 🌍 Then make sure to check the following presentations by Steffen Lohrey and myself! @iiasa.ac.at

locationallocation: solving Maximal Coverage Location-Allocation geospatial infrastructure assessment and planning problems
https://doi.org/10.31223/X5XQ69

Israel votes against Ukraine at UN General Assembly, alongside US, Russia 93 countries voted in favor of the resolution, while 18 countries, including Israel, opposed it.

FYI, www.jpost.com/breaking-new...

Per anni un uomo ha truffato centinaia di editori e agenti letterari, mettendo le mani su migliaia di manoscritti inediti senza nessuna ragione apparente. E senza pubblicarne uno. Una domanda sorge spontanea: ma perché lo ha fatto? Il reportage di Vincenzo Latronico: intern.az/1LvY

Please consider submitting an abstract to the @eurogeosciences.bsky.social EGU25 General Assembly 2025 session ERE2.3: Bridging the gap: climate science models and renewable energy research. | Vienna | Austria | 27 April - 2 May 2025 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...