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Houston's winters are mild, although freezing sometimes occurs, and its summers are potent. The threat of severe weather, especially hurricanes that form when northern cold fronts collide with moisture-laden Gulf coast weather systems, is taken seriously by the local population.
5 paź 2020 · But as the climate warms, the economic and human tolls of catastrophic flooding from increasingly frequent and extreme weather events necessitate a more collective response, one that links urbanization to the imperatives of a safer, more economically sustainable and more just city.
20 wrz 2024 · Houston’s climate is expected to radically change by the 2080s: New research finds it could resemble that of northern Mexico. San Antonio could have weather more like Paras, south of Laredo.
In 2020, the City of Houston announced its Houston Climate Action Plan that aims to reduce greenhouse gases emissions, meet the Paris Agreement goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, and lead the global energy transition.
14 wrz 2024 · Houston offers a case study in the challenges created by unbridled urban sprawl in coastal cities. Harris County grew by one-third from 2000 to 2023, adding 1.3 million residents to become the third-mostpopulous county in the U.S.
14 mar 2024 · Climate Change. Sinking land combined with sea-level rise especially problematic along Gulf Coast, new study finds. “Disappearing cities on U.S. coasts,” a peer-reviewed study published...
25 mar 2021 · As climate change has no borders, we take a broad geographic perspective to highlight promising examples of change across a diverse range of urban SETS.
