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Urban heat officers face rising temperatures - and expectations
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Urban heat officers face rising temperatures - and expectations

The “insidious” impact of extreme heat is challenging cities to find cross-disciplinary solutions.
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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.

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How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers
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How ‘heat officers’ plan to help cities survive ever-hotter summers

Heat-focused officials in these four cities are rolling out warning systems and drawing up green designs to create more heat-resistant metropolises.
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urban heat island effect
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Extreme heat is a disease for cities. Treat it that way

The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
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Mapping the unequal distribution of trees
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Mapping the unequal distribution of trees

The poorest communities have 41% less tree cover than the wealthiest ones, a new mapping project finds. 
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Heat and smog exposure hit low-income and people of color hardest

Heat and smog exposure hit low-income and people of color hardest

Two new studies show that low-income communities and people of color experienced greater heat exposure in 97 percent of cities analyzed, as well as higher hospitalization rates when smog and heatwaves occurred at the same time.
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heat stress and climate racism
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Global heating: Study shows impact of 'climate racism' in US

Black people in the US are subject to double the level of heat stress in cities than whites.
ORIGINAL REPORTING
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Trump’s energy secretary pushes fossil fuels while dismissing renewables in public speeches

Smokestacks with pollution emissions

EPA chief moves to dismantle climate protections

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Opinion: Cuts to NOAA threaten U.S. climate research and weather forecasting

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An open letter from EPA staff to the American public

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

CLIMATE
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Plants are struggling to breathe in a world full of plastic and smoke

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Trump administration may cancel hydrogen hub projects in Democratic-led states