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  "path": "/the-green-guardian/2026-06-09-oxford-study-finds-worlds-highest-heat-risk-cities-concentrated-in-asia-and-africa/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-09T10:07:12.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "The Green Guardian",
    "Air Conditioning",
    "Al Basrah",
    "Cities",
    "Climate Adaptation",
    "Climate Change",
    "climate impacts",
    "Climate Science",
    "Cooling Infrastructure",
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    "Global South",
    "Heat Risk",
    "Heat Vulnerability",
    "heatwaves",
    "INDIA",
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    "Nethmi Jayaratne Kariyawasam",
    "Nigeria",
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    "Radhika Khosla",
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    "University Of Oxford",
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  "textContent": "Heat risk is about more than temperature. A new Oxford study of 205 cities found that poverty, limited infrastructure and lack of access to cooling are key factors driving urban heat vulnerability, with most of the highest-risk cities in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa",
  "title": "Oxford study finds world’s highest heat-risk cities concentrated in Asia and Africa"
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