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"Rise In Extreme Heat Will Hit Minority Communities Hardest" [1]

"Thirty years after Hurricane Andrew demolished Homestead, Fla., another disaster looms.

The city of 80,000 will experience the nation’s sharpest increases in extreme heat, according to a groundbreaking new nationwide analysis that projects how climate change will affect neighborhood temperatures in 2053.

Homestead has another notable quality: 65 percent of its residents are Hispanic, and 22 percent are Black."

Thomas Frank reports for E&E News August 15, 2022. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"More Dangerous Heat Waves Are On The Way: See The Impact By Zip Code." (Washington Post) [3]

 

Climate Change [4]
Disasters [5]
Environmental Health [6]
Environmental Justice [7]
National (U.S.) [8]
Public [9]
Source: E&E News [2], 08/16/2022
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/rise-extreme-heat-will-hit-minority-communities-hardest [2] https://www.eenews.net/articles/rise-in-extreme-heat-will-hit-minority-communities-hardest/ [3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2022/extreme-heat-risk-map-us/ [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/climate-change [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-justice [8] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [9] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81