A growing environmental threat to communities of color — particularly Black Americans, Hispanic Americans and Native Americans — is the damage some are likely to suffer because of climate change in the coming years.
warming and rising seas could make life especially miserable for people of color based on where they currently live in the lower 48 states.Think extreme heat, flooding and childhood asthma from air pollution — plus hours on end where people can't work because it's just too hot.The visual shows the predictions of what people would experience if global temperatures increase by 2°C compared to the 1986-2005 average and sea levels rise by 50 centimeters relative to 2000.
In order to improve our community experience, we are temporarily suspending article commentingThe increasing number of extreme weather incidents is spurring calls from emergency services workers and state and local officials for better public health mapping to identify and assist people at risk from environmental disasters.
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