LIFE ASTI project on Euronews "Climate Now" 

With dangerously high temperatures hitting European cities more and more frequently, Euronews‘monthly climate change series “Climate Now”addresses the LIFE ASTI project, the urban heat island effect, and what can be done to protect the health of the most vulnerable people. Jeremy Wilks reports from Rome the latest efforts to better manage the health risks from heatwaves in European cities. Francesca de’Donato from the Lazio Regional Health Authority and Andrea Cecilia from the Tor Vergata University of Rome talk about all the recorded scientific data and the efforts being made under the LIFE ASTI project. You can watch the episode of “Climate Now” titled “Heatwave alert: can new technology help protect Europe’s most vulnerable?” HERE.

Discussing about climate crisis with professors Nikos Michalopoulos and Dimitris Melas

The climate crisis is already here, showing its destructive face to the people and to our planet more and more often. The CLIMPACT Network, which puts science at the service of the state and society to tackle climate change, brings forward important collaborations that strive to achieve crucial changes. On June 17, LIFE ASTI's Thanos Belalidis discussed about the climate crisis, with leading scientists Professor Nikos Michalopoulos, Director of Research at the National Observatory of Athens, and Professor Dimitris Melas, Department of Physics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. You can watch the interview, in Greek, HERE.