Cities are rehearsing for deadly heat. Will it help when disaster comes?

Grist
By Natalie DonbackMay 5, 2026, 4:45 am113 ptsTrending
On a sunny Friday afternoon in October 2023, some 70 children filed into a cool, dark tunnel in the south of Paris to help the city rehearse for its increasingly hot future. The tunnel, part of the abandoned Petite Ceinture railway encircling the city, is always 64 degrees Fahrenheit (18 degrees Celcius),…

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