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NYC's gaming fight heats up as Saks Fifth Avenue proposes casino at flagship, and developer pitches ferris wheel
A source close to Hudson's Bay Company, owner of Saks, told Insider the plan involves converting up…
Bethany Biron
Cities including Miami and Athens are hiring 'Chief Heat Officers' to help businesses and residents survive extreme heat
Governments in Florida, Greece, and Sierra Leone are hiring 'Chief Heat Officers' to protect cities…
Hannah Towey
The latest problem for the Tokyo Olympics is the temperature and it could be the hottest on record
Temperatures at the Tokyo Olympics this summer are expected to rise to cautionary levels. What coun…
Jackson Thompson
A missile race is heating up all across Asia
"The tyranny of distance is no longer quite as tyrannical," so countries in Asia are bolstering "th…
Benjamin Brimelow
How big-city suburbs won the 2020 migration boom
Large city suburbs saw the biggest gain in residents during the pandemic migration boom, per Jeffer…
Hillary Hoffower
Pfizer picks 4 US states to trial transporting its COVID-19 vaccine at temperatures far below freezing. It's a key test of the 'cold chain' the vaccine will rely on.
Pfizer has picked Rhode Island, Texas, New Mexico, and Tennessee to trial transporting its COVID-19…
Grace Dean
Ford will test remote-operated scooters to try and solve the scooter sharing's biggest challenges
The remote-controlled scooters could help Spin cut down on poorly parked scooters and boost operati…
Tim Levin
This Chart Shows Which Cities Are The Biggest 'Heat Islands' In The Summer
A new study, published July 9 in the journal Nature, found that this heat island effect is largely …
Leslie Baehr
Why even an economic growth of 6.6% is not believable
The Indian GDP grew by 6.6%, the slowest in five quarters. In fact, even a growth of 6.6% seems …
This heat wave is going to make you - and the rest of America - less productive, by as much as 28%
The researchers noted that, as climate change leads to higher average temperatures and more hot day…
Andy Kiersz
New York City's extreme heat created this stormy, apocalyptic cloudscape
On Tuesday, New York declared a heat advisory would be in effect until 6 p.m., and the city opened …
Hilary Brueck
Theresa May's Brexit plan was branded 'Dante's first circle of hell' in a heated Cabinet row
The prime minister's counterproposal is to keep the whole of the UK in a de facto customs union wit…
Thomas Colson
Why one region of the US will survive climate change better than any other, according to urban planners
One of the largest studies on the effects of heat waves took place in Chicago in the 1990s. That st…
Erin Brodwin
The Coast Guard chief describes how the US remains unprepared to deal with the effects of climate change
"Out in Hampton Roads, Virginia, across from Old Dominion University [is a] very upscale neighborho…
Christopher Woody
Inside the 'awkward,' 'tense,' and 'heated' private meeting between Elon Musk and Texans whom SpaceX is trying to buy out to fully realize its vision to reach Mars
Critical to making such a breakthrough, though, is room to safely build, test, and launch such Star…
Dave Mosher
This face mask feels like thick honey, but it heats up and turns into a creamy lotion on your skin - here's what it looks like in person and how it stacks up
Wash your face and pat it dry so you're starting with a clean canvas. Dig into the Farmacy jar with…
Mara Leighton
25 Devastating Effects Of Climate Change
While over-exploitation and habitat destruction are the major threats to most species today, many e…
Leslie Baehr,Chelsea Harvey
A heat wave on the East Coast could break records - and it's prompting warnings about dangerously poor air quality
Temperatures may hit 95 degrees in New York this afternoon, which would be equal to the record-high…
Jeremy Berke
22 Devastating Effects Of Climate Change
One study in the Cape Verde Islands found that as rising temperatures heated sands in which sea tur…
Leslie Baehr
4 out of 5 Puerto Ricans are still without power - but darkness is far from the island's biggest problem
Many of the island's roads remain impassible - of 5,073 total miles of roadways, just 392 miles' wo…