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Trees Save Lives But Do Detroit Residents Want Them?

Yang publishes new book on sustainable smart cities

Killer Heat: US Cities’ Plans For Coming Heatwaves Fail To Protect Vulnerable

Re-Greening: Can Louisville Plant Its Way Out Of A Heat Emergency?

Stone interviewed for NPR story on Climate Justice

City Centers Are Sweltering. Trees Could Bring Back Some of Their Cool

Urban Island Effect Compounds Phoenix’s Sweltering Heat

Blackouts related to severe weather are increasing in the US

HFC ya later

Outages and outrages: The fossil fuel industry exploits blackout fears

Extreme Heat Risks May Be Widely Underestimated and Sometimes Left Out of Major Climate Reports

6 Things to Know About Climate Change and Heat Waves

City Heat is Worse if You’re Not Rich or White. The World’s First Heat Officer Wants to Change That.

How many 500-year floods must Detroit endure in a decade?

More Extreme Weather In Gulf States Means More Power Outages. Are Energy Companies Ready For It?

Combined heat wave and blackout in Detroit could be worse than Hurricane Katrina

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Stone's new book, Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World, is now available from Cambridge University Press. Read a book synopsis on Medium.

Recent News

Resilience or Recklessness? Discussion of retreat in Los Angeles on NPR

Radical Adaptation selected as a top urban planning book of 2024

Climate Grief of City Life_The Atlantic

Washington Post uses UCL study to estimate deaths during a Houston heat wave/blackout

Heat waves: Why your AC cannot save you anymore

The heat wave scenario that keeps climate scientists up at night

Stone delivers talk on Radical Adaptation at Carter Presidential Library

Retreat First, Then Adapt in Noema Magazine

Deadly Heat in the Workplace: UCL study cited in New York Times

Radical Adaptation featured on Radio Ecoshock Podcast

Radical Adaptation: Unlearning How to Plan a City

UCL releases Heat Tolerance Index for 2023

Stone featured in New York Times article on urban heat risk

Approaching the limits of climate viability in cites

UCL featured in New York Times article on rising Sunbelt heat risk

UCL Study on Blackout + Heat Wave Risk in New York Times

UCL Study on Blackout + Heat Wave Risk in Washington Post

UCL Study on Blackout + Heat Wave Risk in Wired Magazine

UCL Releases Study of Atlanta's Neighborhoods Most Vulnerable to Climate Change

Stone featured in PBS NOVA documentary: Weathering the Future

Louisville's plan to combat urban heat could take a century at its current pace -- NPR

Conversations with Cabrera: Climate Action

Georgians without air conditioning endure dangerous heat

How tech can help paint a clearer picture of extreme heat in Atlanta – WABE

Facing a sizzling summer, large parts of the U.S. risk blackouts, government agency warns - CBS News

UCL study featured on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Yang's Georgia Tech studio applies new analytics to reduce flood risk, increase resiliency in Tokyo

Mallen interviewed on Dense City podcast - "Lights Out: Climate Change and Infrastructure Risk

Hot Summer Nights Get Hotter, and More Dangerous - New York Times

Atlanta's heat wave and blackout risk in Atlanta Magazine

UCL work featured in the New York Times

UCL work featured in the Wall Street Journal

Heat hits people of color the hardest -- Washington Post

UCL study featured in New York Times

Stone on the Daily Show: Arizona in the Grip of Climate Change

Stone interviewed for New York Magazine story on adaptation

UCL study featured in the Atlantic

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