US cities are spending millions on trees to fight heat – but are their plans equitable?
by Valerie Yurk in Washington from on (#57BJ5)
As US cities cope with rising temperatures, some are investing in planting and maintaining trees - but experts warn the coverage might benefit wealthy neighborhoods more
After 10am, it's too hot for Hajar Logan to work upstairs, so she moves her home office to the basement. By 11am, she can't leave her house until the sun sets. The heat is too suffocating", she says, in her mostly tree-less neighborhood of Dorchester in Boston.
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