BALTIMORE — During the baseball season, the weather radar is Nicole Sherry’s steadfast companion. It’s the last thing the Baltimore Orioles head groundskeeper checks before bed. When she wakes up, she reviews it to be sure nothing has drastically changed…
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Thousands urge Washington and the world to take action on climate change
By NORA ECKERT, DAN NOVAK, HEATHER KIM, AYANA ARCHIE and HORUS ALAS Capital News Service WASHINGTON – Thousands took to the streets of the nation’s capital on Friday as part of a global youth strike for climate change, wielding signs…
Code Red: Baltimore’s Climate Divide
This collaboration with NPR and Wide Angle Youth Media vividly illustrated the price humans pay as the planet gets hotter. With an abundance of concrete and little shade, urban heat islands like one in Baltimore are getting hotter faster and staying hotter longer. And the people who live there are often sicker, poorer and less able to protect themselves.The investigation, using heat and humidity sensors the students built, found that rising temperatures in such neighborhoods will mean more trips to the hospital for heart, kidney and lung ailments. Drugs to treat mental illness and diabetes won’t work as well. And pregnant women will give birth to more children with more medical problems. Solutions exist. But growing more trees to undo decades of discriminatory redlining, and rebuilding streets and sidewalks to reflect the heat are expensive — and take time.
In urban heat islands, climate crisis hits harder
In Baltimore, the burden of rising temperatures isn’t shared.
Health risks rise with the temperature
For people with chronic health conditions, heat and humidity is more than a summer nuisance.
No trees, no shade, no relief as climate heats up
Poor neighborhoods in Baltimore have far less tree canopy than wealthier neighborhoods.
Global warming will be costly and neighborhoods must do more
Are government leaders and residents ready to act?
A summer in Baltimore’s hottest neighborhoods
A look at how and why we reported the series.