Oct 09 Key to a Cool City? It's in the Trees By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // This week on the NewsHour we have been looking at how the urban heat island effect and climate change turn up the thermostat on U.S. cities, and how places like Chicago are trying to cool off with… Continue reading
Oct 09 Watch From Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas From Rooftop to Alleyway, Chicago Fights Extreme Urban Heat With Greener Ideas… Continue watching
Oct 09 Chicago Gets a Greener, Cooler Makeover In the latest installment of our Coping with Climate Change series, NewsHour visited Chicago to see how the city is keeping cool in the face of rising temperatures. Click on the infographic below to enlarge and click here to… Continue reading
Oct 09 How to Build a Cooler City By Saskia de Melker As global temperatures rise, urban areas are facing challenges in keeping their infrastructure and their residents cool. Chicago is tackling that problem with a green design makeover. This report is part of our Coping with Climate Change series. Continue reading
Oct 08 Coping with Climate Change: Green Roofs of Chicago By Saskia de Melker As global temperatures rise, cities face the challenge of keeping their infrastructure and residents cool. Chicago is tackling the problem with a green design makeover that includes 369 green roofs covering 5.5 million square feet -- more than any other… Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch Storms, Starfish and Warmer Waters Wiped out Half of Great Barrier Reef Coral Storms, Starfish and Warmer Waters Wiped out Half of Great Barrier Reef Coral… Continue watching
Oct 02 Starfish and Storms Cost Great Barrier Reef Half Its Coral The images above show the damage that severe weather and crown of thorns starfish have caused to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system. A study from the Australian Institute for Marine Sciences found… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch Earth Loses Its 'Air Conditioner': Arctic Ice Cap Shrinks to Record Low Level Earth Loses Its 'Air Conditioner': Arctic Ice Cap Shrinks to Record Low Level… Continue watching
Sep 20 Arctic Sea Ice Melts to Record-Breaking Low By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy // Arctic sea ice melted to 1.32 million square miles this September -- an unprecedented low and a sharp drop from the 2.59 million square mile average for this time of year. It also marks the greatest Arctic ice melt… Continue reading
Sep 18 Climate Change From Different Perspectives By Spencer Michels Anything dealing with climate change is bound to provoke an argument. And our story on Berkeley physicist Richard Muller's recent conversion to a believer in man-made global warming, which he made in an op-ed in the New York Times, certainly… Continue reading