A new online dashboard developed by UCLA shows that Latino neighborhoods in California are particularly affected by extreme heat, facing 23 additional days at 90°F or higher compared to non-Latino white areas. This resource emerges as the Trump administration reduces access to federal climate and ethnicity data. The dashboard links extreme heat with air pollution and health issues such as asthma and emphasizes the urban heat island effect, where urban areas with increased industrial activity and less greenery experience significant temperature disparities.
If you've ever heard about a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect, big differences in temperature from neighborhood to neighborhood probably wouldn't come as a surprise.
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