This long-awaited season finale is here! We’ll be continuing our conversation with Drs. Matthew Baldacchino and Noé Hernandez on rising heat across the globe, albeit from a different perspective. Tune in to hear about the upstream interventions and mitigating strategies to subvert the heat, including strategies for climate policy and planning. Recorded May 2026.

In this first part of our long-awaited season finale, join us as we take a step back to look at heat from a broader perspective. This episode, we discuss the downstream impacts of global warming with Drs. Matthew Baldacchino and Noé Hernandez, two medical doctors currently working in global health and policy. Rising heat presents as a continuously urgent issue to address in the global health sphere, though its negative impacts are largely predictable and preventable with proper management. Tune in to explore the adaptation strategies (and more!) currently being implemented in Malta, Mexico, and abroad. Recorded on Zoom, May 2026.

This episode, join us as we explore heat in the city with Dr. Daniel Cumming, a postdoctoral fellow at Queens College. As an urban and environmental historian of the 20th-century United States, Dr. Cumming examines the powerful intersection of housing and heat and the inequalities that emerged in post-World War II New York City. Through his research and his involvement in the international collaborative project Melting Metropolis, we’ll uncover how heat shapes urban environments, influences infrastructure, and deepens social divides. Tune in as we rethink temperature as a force embedded in the history of the modern city. Stay cool, and stay tuned for our next episode. Recorded on Zoom, February 2026.

Check out our show notes here: https://tinyurl.com/hottakesS2-E3