Extreme heat is the deadliest natural hazard in the United States. Between 1992 and 2021, it killed an average of 148 people every year. In the same 30-year period, floods killed about 88 annually ...

What is it? This not-to-be-missed reflective technology is flashier than traditional outdoor gear. The lining composed of small silver dots built to reflect and retain heat energy, artfully concealed ...

With temperatures going up and up summer after summer, working out in the yard is becoming increasingly difficult. This is especially true when working inside an outbuilding such as a shed. Whether ...

Columbia Sportswear has launched a line of apparel with a fabric that captures solar heat. The new “Omni-Heat Black Dot technology," Columbia said, is "the outdoor industry’s first external thermal ...

Work crews sprayed a high tech, heat-resistant coating over the playground at James Workman Middle School in Cathedral City. It's an infrared reflective ceramic surface, similar to what was used on ...

Urban heat islands, created by human activity concentrations, are a causal factor in climate change and Earth’s increasing temperature. Retro-reflective materials could be used to mitigate the ...

Columbia Sportswear is providing its proprietary heat insulation technology used in outdoor apparel to help protect a spacecraft against harsh temperatures for an upcoming commercial mission to the ...

On a typical summer day, it might be 10-12 degrees cooler in leafy sections of Boston than it is downtown, because unshaded pavement and roofs absorb and radiate so much heat. Reducing pavement or ...

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — For 20-year-old Mayank Yadav, riding a crowded bus in the summer months in this western Indian city can be like sitting in an oven. That makes it a treat when he steps off and ...

Have you ever heard of the urban heat island? It's something we experience here in Kansas City, and companies like Evergy are ...