In 2022, a 12 months by which 70,000 Europeans died of heat-related causes, the United Nations named Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili the world’s first-ever international chief warmth officer. A former deputy…
On a latest morning in Asser Levy Playground, on Manhattan’s East Aspect, a bunch of retirees traded serves on a handball court docket adjoining to a just lately accomplished 10-foot-high…
Rounding the nook close to the village of Rodanthe, there’s a stretch of freeway referred to as the S-Curves due to its twisting loops and turns. It’s, by virtually any…
As seas rise and coastal storms intensify, policymakers and low-lying cities across the globe are more and more wrestling with the truth of needing to relocate complete communities to increased,…
There’s a protracted custom in France of taking August off for vacation. Paris nearly shuts down because the temperature drifts round within the seventies, and other people go to the…
In case you lived within the suburbs within the Seventies, you’ll be able to see it in your thoughts’s eye: driveway after driveway full of Nation Squires and Pontiac Safaris…
One balmy summer season night in mid-July final yr, the tiny river Kyll flowing out of the Eifel Mountains in Germany turned from its regular placid stream right into a…
In 2011, Philadelphia’s city-owned water utility drew nationwide consideration when it started Inexperienced Metropolis, Clear Waters, a 25-year program to handle an rising quantity of stormwater through the use of…
Creator David Quammen was properly positioned to see the pandemic coming: nearly 10 years earlier, he had written a guide known as Spillover: Animal Infections and the Subsequent Human Pandemic.…
The U.S. housing scarcity is so extreme that demand outstrips provide by a surprising 3.8 million properties, in accordance with Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored mortgage vendor. The scarcity exacerbates homelessness,…
