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    Planners Eye Ways To Reduce Las Vegas 'Urban Heat Island' Effect

    Oct 21, 2019

    LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials and planners in Las Vegas say they are working to reduce rising temperatures in a city where paved areas create a warmer environment than plant-covered or rural desert areas.

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    Urban Design Enlisted As Weapon To Combat Heat Island Effect

    Oct 08, 2019

    Much has changed since 19th-century wit Oscar Wilde said conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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    Head Of UNLV Architecture Program Plots Escape From Heat Island

    Aug 27, 2019

    (Editor's note: This interview originally aired June 2019) 

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    Heat: Coping With A Warming World
    An view of Washington, D.C. through a thermal camera.
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    WATCH: Why It's Usually Hotter In A City

    Jul 24, 2018
    The way we design and inhabit cities is making them retain heat.
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