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Climate change is making cities hotter. Here’s how planting trees can help

By Lingshan Li, PhD candidate, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University

Canada’s climate is warming twice as fast as the global average, and many cities will experience at least four times as many extreme heat events (days above 30 C) per year in the coming decades.

In Québec alone, elevated summer temperatures were associated with about 470 deaths,…

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