Overview
- From the EPA (Environmental Protectjon Agency
- A good introductory page
- Definitions, causes, characteristics, impacts, reduction
VibrantCities Lab (A+)
- A website devoted to urban forestry: methods and effects
- Briefly summarizes studies that endorse using trees in urban area.
- Explore it.
- From the EPA (Environmental Protectjon Agency
- Mainly links to other pages under Learn, Plan, and Act.
Solutions
- From the EPA (Environmental Protectjon Agency
- A list of proposed solutions, with some links
- A list of linked resources
- From the EPA
- A short page on how and why.
VibrantCities Lab (A+)
- A website devoted to urban forestry: methods and effects
- Briefly summarizes studies that endorse using trees in urban area.
- Explore it.
- From the Washington Post, July 12, 2021
- Describes projects and equity effects
Summer in the City Is Hot, but
Some Neighborhoods Suffer More (B+)
- From The New York Times (limited access)
- Compares 5 cities, including Abuquerque. Heat maps, and what cities are doing.
Cities often experience stronger urban heat island effects at night (B)
- Infographic linked from Wikipedia's article
- Differences in night and day, including with mountains
- Describes an academic study
Tucson
Tucson's south side gets hotter than other parts of city, and not just because of elevation (A)
- From the Arizona Daily Star April 5, 2021
- From 2019, but it lays out some of the issues
- 2021 Editorial from the Arizona Daily Star
- Covers the issue of how much water will be needed.