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Cities sizzle more heat waves, hotter nights

2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LA Times: Temperatures on Earth are creeping upward, and nowhere are they being felt more intensely than in the cities where half of the planet's population resides, a new study suggests. Nearly half the planet`s urban areas experienced a significant rise in the number of extreme heat days and of heat waves that lasted six days or more, according to the study published online Thursday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. Nearly two thirds of those cities also experienced significant increases...

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