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Hamish Lewis, Lecturer in Climate Change, University of Waikato

Cities are getting hotter – and bigger. New research reveals the scale of the challenge

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We tend to think of climate change impacts as dramatic and destructive. Storms and floods that bring down landslides and swamp streets, or raging wildfires that tear through forests and farmland.

Heatwaves, by contrast, often pass for many with little more than a few sleepless nights and headlines about hot weather. What we don’t see is the human cost that is often only counted long after the event is over.

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