Hot and alone: how US cities work to protect isolated people in heatwaves
An elderly woman protects herself from the sun in Toulon, France, on 27 July 2024.
2024-08-26 842词 中等
Data shows people living alone were more likely to perish in Europe’s record-breakingly hot summer in 2022 and 2021’s US Pacific north-west heat dome. Klinenberg documented a similar phenomenon back in 1995 while covering a deadly heat event in Chicago, when temperatures soared to 106F (41C) over the span of five scorching days, and more than 700 people died.
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