New Zealand’s southern waters experiencing marine heatwave
Wellington, New ZealandReuters Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as six degrees Celsius warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists. Metservice oceanographer Joao de Souza, who is part of the Moana Project, said that waters around the […]
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…
As cities bake on a warming planet, insurers cook up heatwave cover
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation As health workers carried out COVID-19 tests in public squares in Washington DC in July, work had to be suspended as temperatures in the paved spaces soared to what felt like 43 degrees Celsius. The heat-wilted US city of Phoenix, meanwhile, has already seen planes delayed from taking off when airport […]