Heatwaves

As cities become hotter, many homes no longer provide a place of safety. Melting Metropolis is a project that combines histories, geographies and research to highlight stories around urban heat islands

The summer of 1976 has gone down in the popular memory as an idealised season in an idealised nation. But what can it teach us?

The Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) is meant to keep homeless people safe when the weather poses a threat to life on the street. Big Issue teamed up with the Pavement magazine to investigate how councils responded to recent heatwaves