Read the full story from Northwestern University. See also coverage of the study in the New York Times and the Chicago Sun-Times.
A new Northwestern University study has, for the first time, linked underground climate change to the shifting ground beneath urban areas.
Although rising temperatures do pose a threat to infrastructure, the researchers also view it as a potential opportunity. By capturing the waste heat emitted underground from subterranean transportation systems, parking garages and basement facilities, urban planners could mitigate the effects of underground climate change as well as reuse the heat into an untapped thermal energy resource.
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