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Cooling warming cities

How to cool American cities

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Climate change is worsening heat waves across American cities. New research compares the benefits of urban infrastructure adaptation — such as the addition of trees and parks to cities — with those of reducing greenhouse gases on the effectiveness of cooling US cities.

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  1. Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Cascade Tuholske

  2. Geospatial Core Facility, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA

    Cascade Tuholske

  3. NASA Earth Science Division, Earth Action Program, Washington, DC, USA

    Helena Chapman

  4. Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean, Virginia, USA

    Helena Chapman

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