A stunning visualization of how racist housing policies create urban heat islands

The New York Times has an extraordinary articlebuilding on some earlier research from Yale Environment 360that illustrates with frightening detail how racism, urban planning, and climate change go hand-in-hand. Using the city of Richmond as a microcosm, authors Brad Plumer and Nadja Popovich explore the city's history through the lens of several individual lives who are impacted by these "urban heat islands" on a daily basis. — Read the rest