{"id":400186,"date":"2026-08-07T12:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400186\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:04:11","slug":"some-san-antonio-neighborhoods-are-getting-cool-makeovers-yale-climate-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400186\/","title":{"rendered":"Some San Antonio neighborhoods are getting cool makeovers \u00bb Yale Climate Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transcript:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the climate warms, summer in San Antonio, Texas, is getting excruciatingly hot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaceldo: \u201cGrowing up in Texas, you always know summers are hot, but over the past several years it\u2019s become a different kind of hot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kate Jaceldo, the city\u2019s climate adaptation manager, says in 2023, San Antonio experienced 75 days over 100 degrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This heat makes it expensive to run air conditioners and puts people at risk of serious health issues like heat stroke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And underinvested neighborhoods, with less tree cover and more concrete, face higher risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jaceldo: \u201cIn those neighborhoods, it is significantly hotter, not just outside but even in the homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sasustainability.com\/category\/beat-the-heat\/cool-and-climate-ready-neighborhoods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cool Neighborhoods<\/a> program is now working to lower the temperature in some of the most heat-stressed areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re covering streets with coatings that limit heat absorption, planting trees, and building bus shelters to create more shade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019re also helping residents make their homes more energy efficient through weatherization projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the city is offering grants to help people cover their roofs in materials that reflect heat from the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As climate change brings more extreme heat to San Antonio, these efforts will help keep people cool and safe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting credit: Ethan Freedman \/ ChavoBart Digital Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Transcript: As the climate warms, summer in San Antonio, Texas, is getting excruciatingly hot. Jaceldo: \u201cGrowing up in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3205,82,84,83,27],"class_list":["post-400186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-heat","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}