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  2. Urban heat island - Wikipedia

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    A definition of urban heat island is: "The relative warmth of a city compared with surrounding rural areas." [14]: 2926 This relative warmth is caused by "heat trapping due to land use, the configuration and design of the built environment, including street layout and building size, the heat-absorbing properties of urban building materials, reduced ventilation, reduced greenery and water ...

  3. Urban heat inequity - Wikipedia

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    Within most U.S. cities, people of color are more likely to live in areas of high Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity than white people in the same cities. According to a study by climatologist Angel Hsu and colleagues, "the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher SUHI intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the ...

  4. What are urban heat islands and what can we do to ... - AOL

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    You might wonder how we disentangle the effects of urban heat islands from climate change. Well, evidence of warming across the planet has been seen in the oceans, too, where urbanization is not a ...

  5. Climate change and cities - Wikipedia

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    Climate urbanism aims to protect physical and digital infrastructures of urban economies from the hazards associated with climate change. Being that cities bring in 80% of the world's revenue, it is important for the infrastructure and planning of these urban areas to be planned out using carbon management and climate resilient infrastructure.

  6. How climate change worsens heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and ...

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    This level of heat would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, according to the WWA. Such temperature spikes will become more common in many places as the world continues to ...

  7. Urban thermal plume - Wikipedia

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    An urban thermal plume describes rising air in the lower altitudes of the Earth's atmosphere caused by urban areas being warmer than surrounding areas. Over the past thirty years there has been increasing interest in what have been called urban heat islands (UHI), [1] but it is only since 2007 that thought has been given to the rising columns of warm air, or ‘thermal plumes’ that they produce.

  8. More than 40 million people in the U.S. live in urban heat ...

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    About 41 million people in the U.S. live in urban heat islands, where city topography elevates temperatures by at least 8 degrees Fahrenheit, according to an analysis published Wednesday by ...

  9. Causes of climate change - Wikipedia

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    This is because climate change increases droughts and heat waves that eventually inhibit plant growth on land, and soils will release more carbon from dead plants when they are warmer. [ 75 ] [ 76 ] The rate at which oceans absorb atmospheric carbon will be lowered as they become more acidic and experience changes in thermohaline circulation ...