Researchers in Baltimore linked neighbourhood-level temperature maps with emergency room records to study asthma. They found 695 pediatric and 819 adult hospitalisations for severe asthma at Johns Hopkins hospitals during summers from 2016 to 2022. Using 1-metre temperature maps and 11 heat-wave definitions, they detected between 44 and 423 neighbourhood heat events, compared with 0 to 95 from official weather station data alone. Prolonged nighttime heat waves were linked to higher hospitalisation risk, especially in socially vulnerable neighbourhoods. The team recommends that Baltimore's heat alerts account for nighttime heat and local differences.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.