Virtual reality games offer visceral taste of a climate-changed future
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation It’s 2040 in Miami, and a powerful hurricane has swamped the low-lying city. You stand alone under a dark, foreboding sky, chest-high waves sloshing around you, an abandoned car floating nearby one of the few objects visible in the expanse of water. A ball-shaped robot then hovers into view, urging you […]
Extreme heat: How ‘chief heat officers’ keep cities cool as the world warms
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how more and more cities are creating the new role as hotter summers cause surging health problems and economic pain in urban areas…
Heatwave Harry? As temperatures soar, naming the threat may save lives
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Giving heatwaves names and strength ratings, as for hurricanes, could drive home the spiking danger from a threat that kills more people in the United States each year than storms and floods but rarely hits headlines, heat experts said this week. “People do not understand this risk and we need to […]