The city’s updated Shade Master Plan calls for trees and built structures at bus stops to protect residents from heat.

Arizona State University is leading an effort to create neighborhood shade plans for Phoenix communities and train the ...

Phoenix does see its share of below-freezing temperatures during the winter. Here's how cold it gets in Phoenix and the ...

We need to think much more holistically” about responding to extreme heat, said Adam Freed, a Bloomberg Associates principal ...

Phoenix has announced an ambitious initiative to combat the city's rising temperatures with the Shade Phoenix Plan.

Arizona faced unprecedented heat, tying for the 7th driest monsoon and marking the hottest summer on record. With minimal rainfall and rising heat-related deaths, it was a challenging year, ...

When AJ Johnson heard that the Phoenix Parks and Recreation Board put South Mountain and Preserve trails under its Trails and ...

As extreme temperatures spread around the world, sometimes reaching 110F and more, heat-related deaths are rising. Thousands ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily ... Our huge problem of people dying due to the extreme heat continued. Last year, 645 deaths in Maricopa County were attributed to heat. So far this year, the number ...

Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego talks about the challenges of leading in the nation's hottest big city and outlines her climate ...

Even in extreme heat waves, the Fremont cottonwoods survived. That's great news, but there was one major caveat—the trees need access to adequate water supply, which is becoming harder to ...