CHICAGO — On a recent tour underneath Chicago’s iconic skyline, Alessandro Rotta Loria, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University, pointed out one of the ...

Here’s something coming without delays. New research warns that rapidly rising underground heat in subway stations is well on its way to becoming a “silent hazard” that will wreck transit systems and ...

Heat is a silent hazard sitting beneath cities, threatening to shift infrastructure. A study published this week in Communications Engineering, outlines how heat could be changing major cities, but ...

Burning oil and other fossil fuels plays a role in increasing both ground-level and atmospheric temperatures, raising alarms for a sustainable future — but there’s more to the equation. “Underground ...

The urban heat island effect goes deeper than the sidewalk: Pockets of heat in cities exist below ground as well, in what some scientists refer to as underground climate change. Yet scientists are ...