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Last fall, I was honored and delighted to be an MIT Knight Science Journalism project fellow, reporting from Los Angeles and conducting in-depth research into shade, extreme heat, and how this rising climate threat is slowly being incorporated into urban planning and civic engineering. For the fellowship, I blogged about a community forum in Watts, where UCLA researchers presented hyper-local digital heat maps to a shocked audience. The data was new, but the main findings—it’s too hot there, and shade can help—wasn’t much of a surprise.