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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

FOUND: Underground climate change poses a silent hazard - You Need To See This

Alessandro Rotta Loria holds a temperature sensor that his team installed in the Millennium Metra underground station in the Loop. The sensors are part of a Northwestern University project that examines subsurface “heat islands.” (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

As the planet heated up due to global warming over much of the past century, so have spaces underneath the Loop.

That’s a cause for concern around the impact on buildings, new research from Northwestern University finds, though it also presents an opportunity to reuse that heat.

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