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onlinepersona to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 8 months ago

Global South cities lack cooling green spaces

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Global South cities lack cooling green spaces

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onlinepersona to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.net · 8 months ago
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Cities in the Global South are more exposed to extreme heat because they lack cooling green spaces, new research shows. The study found that Global South cities have just 70% of the "cooling capacity" provided by urban greenery in the Global North. The paper, published in the journal Nature Communications, is titled "Green infrastructure provides substantial but unequal urban cooling globally."

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/20502

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    Guerilla gardening. Your city won’t do it? Do it yourself

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      I’m all for it, but this does still require patches of soil in the cities that are rapidly getting paved over.

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