Hazy, hot and… shady? How street trees counteract air pollution and heat in American cities
19d 16h ago by sopuli.xyz/u/supersquirrel in solarpunk@slrpnk.net from phys.org

Figure 4. Oakland/Berkeley, CA and Detroit, MI capture the variation in the organization of multihazard exposure, hazard driver infrastructure, and socioeconomic inequities in exposure possible across cities. Oakland/Berkeley (a) has many communities experiencing multihazard exposure, which are (b) often home to low-income populations because of (c ) a combination of high street density with few trees. Detroit (d) has few places with multihazard exposure that (e) are not necessarily low-income communities, in part because (f) communities with high street density often have substantial tree canopy.