- The grass isn't always greener... Comparing across 5,723 places in US, low-income areas have 15% less tree cover than high-income and are 1.5C hotter. For Northeast, disparities are twice as high. Need $18B invested in planting to close the gap (PLOS ONE) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0249715 4 comments science
- Urban tree cover provides benefits to human health and well-being, but is inequitably distributed. In 92% of the urbanized areas surveyed, low-income blocks have less tree cover than high-income blocks. Low-income blocks have 15.2% less tree cover and are 1.5⁰C hotter than high-income blocks. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249715 114 comments science
Linking pages
- Cities Are Hotter For Low-Income, Nonwhite Neighborhoods, Study Says : NPR https://www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1015983700/extreme-heat-is-getting-worse-for-low-income-non-white-americans-a-new-study-sho 6 comments
- Extreme Heat Is Worse For Low-Income, Nonwhite Americans, A New Study Shows | KUT Radio, Austin's NPR Station https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-07-15/extreme-heat-is-worse-for-low-income-nonwhite-americans-a-new-study-shows 5 comments