Last summer was the hottest summer of record and Miamians are bracing for another season of staggering heat. Miami-Dade County has appointed the world’s first chief heat officer and tasked her with executing solutions, like growing more trees. A Herald investigation found that lower-income areas and communities of color bear the brunt of the complications […]
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Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr – the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has made a name for herself as a tree-planting mayor of a West African city on the brink of a climate emergency. The 56-year-old is also the first directly elected female mayor of Freetown – and the first person to be re-elected since it became a position voted for by the residents of […]