Sweltering cities

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  The Guardian

  

  How Delhi's rising heat and a love of concrete caused a deadly water crisis

  The Guardian - Ashish Malhotra in Delhi

  Reports warn it could run out of groundwater by 2020. Has Delhi run out of time to reverse years of mismanagement and unchecked urbanisation? It’s about 4pm on a muggy monsoon day in Wazirpur, a low-income urban village in Delhi. A group of 30 women are lined up in the 34C heat (93F) behind an …

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  The Guardian

  

  Cooling goo sidewalks and other strange new weapons in the war on urban heat

  The Guardian - Susie Cagle in Los Angeles

  Los Angeles faces a doubling of its extreme heat days but has fresh ideas to keep residents cool - and tackle the inequality of who suffers Los Angeles can sometimes feel like a sprawling hellscape of heat: in the northern valleys and the southern city, metal playground equipment, car steering …

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  The Guardian

  

  Nearly 200 US cities are seeing more extremely hot days, analysis finds

  The Guardian - Emily Holden in Washington

  198 had an increase in the average number of days each year that felt 90F or hotter and 106 cities had an increase in ‘danger’ days that felt 105F or hotter Nearly 200 US cities have seen an increase in the number of days each year that soar beyond a heat index of 90F (32.2C) or higher, according to …

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  The Guardian

  

  'We have different ways of coping': the global heatwave from Beijing to Bukhara

  The Guardian - Elle Hunt with Ruth Michaelson, Daniel Hurst, Oliver Holmes, Adham Youssef, Jillian Kestler-D'Amours, Sevil Khikmatova, Clea Skopeliti and Guardian Cities readers

  Swimming in the Nile, wearing wet towels, absorbing heat with sacks of rice – people from nine countries around the world tell us how they’re coping – or not coping – with the extreme heat In Cairo people swim in the Nile and absorb the heat in their homes with sacks of rice. In Tokyo they carry …

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  The Guardian

  

  'It can’t get much hotter ... can it?' How heat became a national US problem

  The Guardian - Oliver Milman in Philadelphia

  Heat now kills more Americans than floods, hurricanes or other natural disasters – but cities are facing it almost entirely alone On yet another day of roasting heat in Phoenix, elderly and homeless people scurry between shards of shade in search of respite at the Marcos De Niza Senior Center. Along …

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  The Guardian

  

  An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city

  The Guardian - Rowan Moore

  The shopping mall, the office block, suburbs, museums, Hollywood, the Gulf cities – air conditioning powered them all. But has the time come to turn it off? Once, when I was staying in Houston, Texas, my host was showing me round her house. It included a mighty fireplace. “How often does it get cold …