Eric Hitchner teaches English on the fourth floor of a 111-year-old high school in Philadelphia. Come September, his classroom will be packed with a new crop of teenagers, but one thing will be the ...
CLIMATEWIRE | Hundreds of thousands of students will return this month to public schools without air conditioning amid stifling temperatures. Box fans will thrum over teachers’ voices. School nurses ...
Nearly 40 percent of schools in the United States were built before the 1970s, when temperatures were cooler and fewer buildings needed air conditioning. That has changed. In recent decades, heat has ...
As summer heats up in Boston, school district officials say classrooms will be kept cool as every building hosting students enrolled in summer learning programs have now been equipped with air ...
In response to global warming, human beings have been forced to adapt in response to the long-term warming trend. Long-term warming is concomitant with severe weather events such as heatwaves, cold ...
The Great Divide is an investigative team that explores educational inequality in Boston and statewide. Sign up to receive our newsletter, and send ideas and tips to [email protected]. After ...
Climate change shapes where and how we live. That's why NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for building and living on a hotter planet. Our homes use a lot of energy. The huge amounts ...
For the past few days, a heatwave has glowered over the Pacific Northwest, forcing temperatures in the region to a record-breaking 118ºF. Few people in the region—neither Americans nor Canadians—have ...