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The ABCs of Adaptation
October 11, 2021.
From Adaptation to Urban Heat Island, an interactive dictionary of terms, data, and maps you need to know as Norfolk learns to ‘live with the water’. Part of the URC’s Concise Dictionary series.
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Heat Islands and Norfolk’s Urban Canopy.
In Norfolk, formerly redlined neighborhoods are 3 degrees hotter than their affluent counterparts. Partly, this is because of a history of unequal tree canopy planting in poor neighborhoods. Published in partnership with Norfolk Currents
Flooding Hits The Poor. Globally and in Norfolk.
When Isaiah tells the Israelites that God will “open rivers” for the “poor and needy,” he may have gotten more than he bargained for. Around the world, it’s often the meekest of the Earth that inherit the burden of flooding more than anyone else.
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