Climate change forces urgent move to ‘green’ LAUSD campuses

School campuses around Los Angeles are the latest battleground for climate change. Schoolyard blacktops are reaching temperatures in excess of 130 degrees. After much lobbying from parents and children alike, the state of California has stepped up with a $40 million grant to tear out that blacktop and put in trees and greenery to try and reduce temperatures.

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