How America’s hottest city will survive climate change

| August 7, 2020 | Leave a Comment

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Date of Publication: July 8

Year of Publication: 2020

Publication City: Washington, DC

Author(s): Sarah Kaplan

Newspaper: The Washington Post

On a warming planet, heat hurts communities of color more. But Phoenix is finding ways to cool down.

High noon in America’s hottest city. The sun blazed in a cloudless sky, making the air shimmer above the softening asphalt. A thermometer registered more than 100 degrees in the shade. Not that there’s much shade to speak of in the central Phoenix neighborhood of Edison-Eastlake, hemmed in by highways and covered in scorching concrete.

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