Flooding in Montréal, and other Canadian cities, is becoming a more frequent occurrence.
Opinion
As intense heat breaks records around the world, a little-reported fact offers some hope for cooling down cities: Under even the most intense periods of extreme heat, some city blocks never experience heat wave temperatures.
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