Category: Climate
Water, energy, heat and how the river valley adapts to a changing climate.
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The river is at its lowest October level since records began
The gauge at the old harbour read 41 centimetres on Tuesday, two centimetres below the previous October low from 2018. Cargo ships are running at a third of their usual load.
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Every third school roof is getting solar panels
By the end of 2027, solar panels on 23 school roofs are to cover about half of the electricity the schools use. The first six systems are already running.
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500 new street trees, chosen for hotter summers
Lime and maple have lined the streets of Lindenfeld for a century. The trees planted this autumn are hornbeam, silver lime, ginkgo and hop hornbeam, species that cope better with heat and dry soil.
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Heat days have tripled since the 1990s
We looked at 35 years of data from the weather station at the airport. The number of days above 30 °C has risen from an average of four to an average of thirteen a year.