Europe’s city schools, hospitals at risk from extreme heat, EU agency says
Brussels, BelgiumReuters 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 Celsius […]
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 […]