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Karina Corada-Pérez, Research Fellow, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London

How the trend for turning front gardens into driveways is adding to night-time heat

Thousands of front gardens have been paved over. 1000 Words/Shutterstock

Warm sticky nights are becoming more and more common in the UK.

Climate change is raising temperatures, but one factor that adds to that is often ignored. Walk down a city street and you see what would have been front gardens a decade or so ago have now been tarmacked over and turned into driveways.

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