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In tropical cities, urban heat islands (UHIs) exacerbate an already challenging hot-humid heat burden for residents. UHIs are formed by urban artificial surfaces like concrete and asphalt that retain heat by day and slowly release it at night, never giving cities a chance to cool.
Bangladesh’s shipbreaking industry faces a pivotal treaty dispute. The country’s interim government last year decided that both Basel Convention and the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) will apply simultaneously to the local shipbreaking operations.
Starmer might be about to lose power, but LCAW kept UK-China green finance cooperation on a positive trajectory.
Heat and salt threaten to end a tradition dating back hundreds of years. Farmers and scientists are fighting back.
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