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Nearly-fatal heat already affects people in ‘informal’ towns

Temperatures in some settlements approach the limits of human survivability, even as Earth continues to warm.
A house made of pieces of corrugated metal and wooden railings.

A house in an informal settlement in Makassar, Indonesia. Researchers studied a dozen such settlements in the city to predict how climate change will affect residents. Credit: Emma E. Ramsay

Informal, low-income settlements in tropical cities will be hit even harder than predicted by climate change, resulting in dire income losses and declining health1.

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Nature 599, 351 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03079-0

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  1. Ramsay, E. E. et al. iScience https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103248 (2021).

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