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Cities can use cool roofs to combat extreme heat

Cities can use cool roofs to combat extreme heat

Cool roofs, which reflect sunlight, can help cities reduce the urban heat-island effect, potentially saving lives as global temperatures rise.

Matt Simon reports for Grist.

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Many New York City neighborhoods face high heat vulnerability this summer

Many New York City neighborhoods face high heat vulnerability this summer

As New York City braces for another hot summer, 80 neighborhoods are identified as highly vulnerable to heat, with many of these areas being low-income communities or communities of color.

Alastair Lee Bitsóí reports for Inside Climate News.

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As cities swelter, urban shade trees fall by the millions

Midwestern cities face a dilemma: Remove mature ash trees that keep neighborhoods cool or leave them to be devoured by a tiny bug.
Birmingham Alabama reforestation

A tree grows in Birmingham

How one Southern community aims to plant its way into the Alabama shade.
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Arizona Republicans don’t want to hear about the deadly heat wave

GOP lawmakers are brushing off the extreme heat — and any suggestion of climate change.

Podcast: The Climate Divide

Redlining and other forms of housing discrimination have led to a lack of green spaces in some D.C. neighborhoods, and these densely populated urban blocks can be as much as 20 degrees warmer than historically wealthier and more bucolic wards in the District.

What climate change could mean for fog in the San Francisco Bay Area

What climate change could mean for fog in the San Francisco Bay Area

Its ebb and flow has long defined life along the California coast. Now, some scientists fear climate change is causing an ethereal companion to fade away.
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