Heatwave response: In a boiling world, chief heat officers battle ‘silent killer’
With heatwaves roasting cities, chief heat officers try to protect people from temperatures so high “the body can’t cool down”. ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Europe’s city schools, hospitals at risk from extreme heat, EU agency says
Brussels, Belgium Reuters Nearly half of schools and hospitals in European cities are located in urban “heat islands”, exposing vulnerable populations to health-threatening temperatures as climate change impacts worsen, the European Union’s environment agency has said. Around 46 per cent of hospitals and 43 per cent of schools are in areas at least two degrees […]
Heatwave in Paris exposes city’s lack of trees
Paris, France Reuters As a third heatwave baked France this week, the heat radiating off the asphalt outside the Garnier Opera house in Paris hit 56 degrees Celsius on urban planning expert Tangui Le Dantec’s thermometer. Shade was non-existent with barely a tree in sight. The Place de l’Opera is one of numerous so-called urban […]