Extreme heat causes more deaths than storms, fires, and floods in the US. Cities are responding by naming heat czars and looking for ways to cool urban areas. Presented by Deloitte.
because some trees, new and old, are damaged in storms or are lost when land is cleared for development. Yet drawing in everyday citizens to the effort is essential, Gilbert said, because the county can't otherwise reach its goal.
Miami-Dade County gives away about 2,000 trees at each of its adopt-a-tree events and, since 2001, has handed out more than 215,000 of them.Noboru Nakamura, a professor in the department of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago,that facilitated last summer's historic heat wave in the Pacific Northwest in which more than 1,000 people died in the US and Canada. The phenomenon is called atmospheric blocking, and it involves the jet stream stalling over a region.
While extreme-heat events are likely to increase, what's less understood is the role Earth's atmospheric machinery might play, he said.
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