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July 9, 2013 03:45 pm PDT
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Climate change creating "heat islands" for blacks, Asians, Latinos inUS
Writing at GRIST, Susie Cagle points to a new study publishedin the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, which finds that "not all neighborhoods and racial groups are faring equally" as climate change raises temps in urban areas: "According to the research, blacks, Asians, and Latinos are all significantly more likely to live in high-risk heat-island conditions than white people."Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/jSwVHk6614Y/story01.htm
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