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 What Will Early Elections in Israel Mean? By Larisa Epatko Hoping to capitalize on his general popularity and possibly avoid a budget scuffle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for elections to be bumped up nearly a year and be held within the next three months. Continue reading
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 U.S. and French Scientists Win Nobel Prize for Quantum Optics Pictures of Serge Haroche of France and David Wineland of the U.S. are projected on a screen as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces the winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 9, 2012 at the… 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 Watch Romney-Obama Race Tightens Up, Raising Stakes for Vice Presidential Debate Romney-Obama Race Tightens Up, Raising Stakes for Vice Presidential Debate… Continue watching
Oct 08 Watch In ‘Joseph Anton,’ Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life In his new memoir, Salman Rushdie recounts, in the third person, his upbringing as a secular muslim trying to understand his religion, as well as living under fatwa, a period when he says he discovered his own resilience. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Oct 05 Watch Shields and Brooks on Close Congressional Races, Obama’s Debate Performance Shields and Brooks on Close Congressional Races, Obama's Debate Performance… Continue watching
Oct 05 ‘Have I Managed My Finances Properly For a Long Retirement?’ Creative Commons photo courtesy flickr user Zadi Diaz. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Friday's comes from a reader at Next Avenue. The NewsHour… Continue reading