Urban communities that lack shade sizzle when it's hot. Trees are a climate change solution
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Detroit and other cities are adding trees and green spaces as one way to blunt the impact of warmer average temperatures and heat waves that are longer and hotter due to climate change. “On a day like today where it’s in the 80s or in the 90s and it’s sunny, I mean, it’s just amazing the difference that we feel in our neighborhood versus when we get outside and there isn’t near as much trees,” Jones said. “The lethality of urban heat may increase with a changing climate,” Locke said. “That’s landscape changing on a grand scale for a zip code,” said Sage Roberts Foley, executive director of Baton Rouge Green.
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