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Cities are tackling growing heat – but they have to avoid a dangerous trap
Beneath the streets of Seville – the city nicknamed “El Sartén”, the frying pan of Europe, where summer temperatures regularly top 40C – a €5m (about £4m ) cooling strategy is taking the city back in time. The millennium-old Persian technique of “qanat” …