Becoming Arizona By 2100, Sacramento is expected to feel much like Phoenix. What can we do now to prepare for that hotter future? Read part one Part One: This Arid Life As Sacramento heats up, how might our landscape change in the coming decades? Read part one Part Two: Lessons from Phoenix How Phoenix tracks, confronts, and reduces heat-related death and illness, what we can learn from them, and the challenges that remain. Read part two Part Three: Urban Heat Islands These islands are no escape. They arise in our most disadvantaged communities. It’s time to stop thinking about trees as beautification and more as a health and social equity solution. Read part three Part Four: Cooling Sacramento Low-carbon cooling in a warming city. Read part four Part Five: Triple Threats in Triple Digits How climate change, COVID-19, and racism intertwine, and what a warming city can do about it. Read part five Science & Climate UC Davis is applying its collective strengths in science, engineering, art and design to the problem of climate change and a warming planet. Image
