Low-income blocks in 92% of U.S. urban communities have less tree cover and are hotter (IMAGE)

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Low-income blocks in 92% of U.S. urban communities have less tree cover and are hotter

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Fig 3. Tree cover for United States large urbanized areas. a.) Population-weighted median tree cover. b.) The absolute difference between low-income blocks (lowest quartile of income) and high-income blocks (highest quartile of income) in tree cover

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McDonald et al, 2021, PLOS ONE (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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