Boston area city blocks become test cases for beating urban heat – CBS News Watch CBS News In Chelsea, Massachusetts, one city block is being transformed to test solutions for extreme urban heat. Ben Tracy from Climate Central reports. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting….
Boston — For Arwa Ait-Chaib and her mother, Wafa El Hidar, summertime in Chelsea, Massachusetts, means trying to beat the heat. “There are always some days that I feel like we live in the middle of the Sahara desert,” Ait-Chaib told CBS News. Their Chelsea neighborhood, located just across the river from Boston, offers little…
Falling wires strand passengers on hot MBTA Commuter Rail train for hours Passengers on a commuter train on the Franklin Line say their ride home from Boston was a nightmare Monday after getting stuck for an extra two hours on the train. “It abruptly stopped, all the power went out,” said Christian Dadasis, a passenger…
Hong Kong should capitalise on the opportunities arising from US-China tensions to attract more talent to its academic and tech sectors, heads of the city’s top medical schools have said, ahead of a visit to the world’s largest biotechnology event in Boston. Representatives from the medical faculties of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and…