How heat waves shape minority and low-income neighborhoods
Jul 8, 2024 · Mortality records from cities across the country have shown that heat kills along socioeconomic and racial lines. In 1995, a deadly heat wave killed 739 people in Chicago. Most of the victims were poor, elderly and Black.
Dangerous Urban Heat Exposure has Tripled Since the 1980s, with …
Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the global population, live in urban areas where extreme heat exposure has risen. Most reports on urban heat exposure are based on broad estimates that overlook millions of at-risk residents. We looked closer.
Extreme Heat Is Getting Worse for Low-Income, Non-White ... - KQED
Jul 14, 2021 · Heat is the biggest weather-related killer of Americans, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; an estimated 800 people have already died in the heat wave that has gripped the Pacific Northwest this month.
Discrimination Has Trapped People of Color in Unhealthy Urban 'Heat …
Sep 19, 2023 · Treeless, breezeless tracts of hot concrete and pavement within cities have become known as urban heat islands. They are not healthy places. The consequences of extreme heat for the human body...
Discriminatory past shapes heat waves in communities of color - NBC News
Jul 8, 2024 · Discrimination shapes heat waves in minority and low-income neighborhoods, as mortality records show that heat waves kill along socioeconomic and racial lines.
High Heat Is Preferentially Killing the Young, Not the Old, New ...
Dec 6, 2024 · A study published last year showed that farmworkers in many poor countries are already planting and harvesting amid increasingly oppressive heat and humidity. ... The World Health Organization notes that heat-related mortality for people over 65 increased by approximately 85% between 2000–2004 and 2017–2021. Heat and healthFinally, 1 ...
Heat waves hit minority neighborhoods the hardest. Here’s why ...
Jul 8, 2024 · Tens of millions of Americans are facing major heat waves, with temperatures consistently exceeding 90 degrees. But in big cities, the heat hits hardest for people of color and low-income...
How the World Bank is combating heat in cities
4 days ago · Understanding urban heat. Today, 1.7 billion people are exposed to extreme heat in cities. Urban heat islands – exacerbated by factors like concrete surfaces, limited vegetation, motor vehicles, and air conditioning – can raise city temperatures by as much as 10°C higher than in nearby areas.
People and Heat Islands - US EPA
6 days ago · Portland, OR, reached a record-high temperature of 116°F, which is 42°F above normal. v That week, Portland area health clinics and hospitals reported heat-related visits more than three times above average. vi The “heat dome,” as the event became known, killed dozens of people in Portland alone—and hundreds across the region. Before ...
Record heat waves illuminate plight of poorest Americans who …
Jul 30, 2023 · America’s poorest residents and people of color are far more likely to face grueling heat without air conditioning to keep their body temperatures down, according to a Boston University analysis of 115 U.S. cities.