Neighboring rural areas provide cities with ‘green clothes’ that reduce urban heat islands

Neighboring rural areas provide cities with ‘green clothes’ that reduce urban heat islands | Nature Cities

The rural land covers that surround a city can mitigate the urban heat island effect for the entire city. In addition, specific rural locations and proposed landscape design strategies can maximize the potential for urban heat mitigation.

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This is a summary of: Yang, M. et al. Mitigating urban heat island through neighboring rural land cover. Nat. Cities https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00091-z(2024).

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Neighboring rural areas provide cities with ‘green clothes’ that reduce urban heat islands. Nat Cities (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-024-00092-y

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