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Cool materials can help in certain situations, but they're just one tool in adapting to a hotter normal.

Climate change will affect everyone, so how can U.S. communities adapt and thrive? Colleen Moore and Alexis St. Juliana explore a range of promising responses.

First european cities -- it was the first to appoint a chief heat officer, somebody in charge of preparing for the impacts of warming. so, how important is this to sort of recognize this? to have somebody in charge of something like this, is this something many or most studies should have right now? >> without question. we need to be smart about, this we need to really focus on the century-long plan of dealing with this extreme heat and urban areas, but over half the will population today lives in cities. by 2050, over two thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. so, these peop...

Adding green spaces, painting roads lighter colors and more efforts are becoming successful in cooling cities as temperatures rise.

India is no stranger to hot temperatures, but in 2022, they struck earlier, lasted longer and hit record highs. Ahmedabad's pioneering strategy to protect the vulnerable is a model for climate adaptation efforts across India.