Urban areas tend to be warmer than rural areas due to the heat island effect — tightly spaced, tall buildings, along with roads, industries, and other infrastructure absorb solar radiation and re-emit heat, causing cities to be several degrees hotter than surrounding areas.Keeping this in mind, several Indian cities are looking at short-term measures to fight the heat island effect. These measures, city planners believe, may prove helpful as our planet becomes hotter — the India Meteorological...
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Monrovia City Mayor, John-Charuk Siafa has called for more financial allocation for effective and sustainable city management. By: Blamo N. Toe/Contributing Writer Mayor Siafa made the call during his appearance before the Joint Committee on Ways, Means, Finance and Budget of the 55th National Legislature on Tuesday, April 23, 2024 for his first budget hearing. []
A third of older adults with credit card debt carry a balance of more than $10,000 and 12% have a balance of $20,000 or more.
The full-year cost to the State of the auto-enrolment pension scheme is expected to be €138m in 2025, according to figures released by Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys.
Traditionally, estimates of how climate change will affect global economies have focused on the effects of annual temperature changes. However, the additional impacts of variability and extremes in rainfall and temperature have remained largely unexplored, until now.
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This steep increase underscores a broader economic phenomenon where climate change significantly impacts global commodity prices.
A Kansas City police officer has been indicted in which he spent more than $300,000 in charity donations for his own personal expenses.
Boston appointed its first climate chief officer Wednesday morning.
The scheme was brought in to deter 'inconsiderate' drivers from parking on grass verges
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has