Climate Swing is a collaborative reporting project from INN newsrooms Borderless Magazine, Cicero Independiente and Inside Climate News in which they examine the effect of climate change and environmental injustice on parks, green space and playgrounds.
Inside Climate News reports that Hoboken officials have taken a series of measures designed to mitigate the destructive effects of storms that are driven by climate change, including the creation of a 5-acre park that doubles as a storage area for roughly 2 million gallons of stormwater runoff.
A new ability-inclusive playground at a former Cicero industrial site is raising alarms among local residents and experts about how the town is handling toxic soil beneath the surface.
The Brighton Park neighborhood on the Southwest Side, one of the hottest in Chicago, lacks sufficient green space and parks to combat the conditions brought on by climate change. Recently, the city has made investments to reduce this disparity, including building the new park district headquarters in the neighborhood, with climate change in mind.
Inside Climate News, the largest dedicated climate newsroom in the nation, reports how extreme heat is an increasing danger to children playing outdoors in Tempe, part of the nation’s hottest major metro area.
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