3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change

Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change | Simple trick could lower city temperatures 3.6 F, London study suggests | Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent Created for {EMAIL} | [Web Version]( September 23, 2024 CONNECT WITH LIVESCIENCE  [Facebook]( [X](  [LIVESCIENCE]( Amazing science every day [SIGN UP]( ⋅ [WEBSITE](   Top Science News [] [Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change]( (Photos by Steve Proehl and Afriandi via Getty Images, Alberto Masnovo via Adobe Stock; Photo collage by Marilyn Perkins) [Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change]( Milan's marble facades and narrow, stone-paved streets look elegant and timeless. But all of that stone emits heat and does nothing to absorb rain, and temperatures and flooding in the posh Italian city are only predicted to increase in the coming decades. In Jakarta, black floodwaters already rush into homes every winter along the Indonesian city's many rivers. That water is filled with sewage and harbors disease, but many people can't afford to move. Soon, climate change will put more of Jakarta — and many other low-lying cities — below sea level. And in arid San Diego, water is already treated like a precious commodity. As drought increases in the coming years, protecting this resource will become even more important. Human-caused climate change is transforming weather patterns and shifting ecosystems around the globe. Cities will have to respond, and some are already taking bold steps. Each of these three cities [offers a different roadmap for climate adaptation]( that has lessons for other places around the world. And while no single approach will be a silver bullet, each offers a hopeful vision of how we can learn to live and thrive on a warming planet. [Read More]( [] - [Simple trick could lower city temperatures 3.6 F, London study suggests]( [] - [Record-breaking fires engulf South America, bringing black rain, green rivers and toxic air to the continent]( [] - [Ancient civilizations knew how to keep cool in deadly heat. We need to resurrect that lost knowledge now.]( [] Life's Little Mysteries [] [When was steel invented?]( (Monty Rakusen via Getty Images) [When was steel invented?]( No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia. [Read More]( [] Space [] [Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem]( (BoliviaInteligente on Unsplash) [Stephen Hawking's black hole radiation paradox could finally be solved — if black holes aren't what they seem]( New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an event horizon, potentially solving some of the biggest paradoxes in black hole physics. [Read More]( [] Health [] [Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it's synced to their brains shrinking from morning to night]( (BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) [Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it's synced to their brains shrinking from morning to night]( A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight. [Read More]( [] Animals [] [3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key']( (Wirestock, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo; blickwinkel / Alamy Stock Photo;Josiah O. Kuja, Robert R. Jackson, Godfrey O. Sune, Rebecca N. H. Karanja, Zipporah O. Lagat, Georgina E. Carvell, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) [3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator that uses 'pincer, fork and key']( In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs. [Read More]( [] Daily Quiz [] What does AGI stand for? (Learn the answer [here](.) [Vote]( [Artificial General Intelligence]( [Vote]( [Artificially Generated Intelligence]( [Vote]( [Actual General Intelligence]( [Vote]( [Always Generally Intelligent](   [Sign Up]( | [Update Profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( [Privacy Policy]( | [Cookies Policy]( | [Terms and Conditions]( CONTACT US: [FEEDBACK](mailto:livescience@smartbrief.com) | [ADVERTISE]( [Future]( Future US LLC © Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10036