Ask MIT Climate: What can cities and towns do to lower extreme temperatures?
Ask MIT Climate: What can cities and towns do to lower extreme temperatures?

Ask MIT Climate: What can cities and towns do to lower extreme temperatures?

Randolph Kirchain and Hessam AzariJafari are featured in a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology Climate Portal piece discussing how green spaces and reflective pavements/rooftops can help cities mitigate the impacts of extreme heat.

“[With] the billions that we spend to maintain our urban surfaces,” Kirchain says, “we need to make sure we’re adding in climate considerations into those decisions and be open to new approaches.”

Read the article.