Reflective pavement and new trees are lowering the temperature in heat-stressed communities.
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As the climate warms, summer in San Antonio, Texas, is getting excruciatingly hot.
Jaceldo: “Growing up in Texas, you always know summers are hot, but over the past several years it’s become a different kind of hot.”
Kate Jaceldo, the city’s climate adaptation manager, says in 2023, San Antonio experienced 75 days over 100 degrees.
It's been a brutally hot summer throughout the U.S., and it's even worse in many urban pockets. Trees can help.
It requires new construction and major renovations to use reflective roofs that can cool neighborhoods by as much as six degrees.
Residences are retaining more heat as the city’s summers heat up.
Austin, Texas, is helping low-income residents make energy efficiency upgrades, maintaining cooling centers, and urging people to…
Living – or crocheted – canopies and a 3,000-year-old Persian technique are among methods being used to cope as temperatures soar
Trees ‘sweat’ so that people don’t have to
