Nights in Las Vegas Are Becoming Dangerously Hot

> growth has translated to more roads, more cars, more houses — across a sprawling area — creating one of the most intense urban heat island effects in the United States. At night, the heat trapped inside asphalt and buildings exhales back into neighborhoods, making the city 20 to 25 degrees hotter than the surrounding desert.

Eventually, there's a couple fluffy paragraphs about new measures to reduce that "20 to 25 degrees hotter". A bit. Unfortunately, Las Vegas' measures sound more like band-aids & feel-goods than a policy priority. And there's no hint of serious high-level analysis of the problem. Nor of success stories existing anywhere in the world.