Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

How the trend for turning front gardens into driveways is adding to night-time heat

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Karina Corada-Pérez, Research Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London

Warm sticky nights are becoming more and more common in the UK.

Climate change is raising temperatures, but one factor that adds to that is often ignored. Walk down a city street and you see what would have been front gardens a decade or so ago have now been tarmacked over and turned into driveways.

Individually these changes might seem…

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