Two extensive recent news articles report on rising sizzling temperatures and the severe dangers they pose to human and environmental health. There’s a focus on the greater Phoenix area as a region where heat is increasingly threatening livability for large populations. Among researchers working to understand heat, its impacts and how to reduce it are Ariane Middel and Jennifer Vanos, faculty members, respectively, in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools and Engineering and the School of Sustainability. Both are with ASU’s Urban Climate Research Center, where solutions are being sought to reduce vulnerability to dangerous heat in both urban communities and ecosystems across the world. See also: Too hot even for cactuses” Phoenix offers taste of heat’s dangers, NZZ (Switzerland)