The Environmental Protection Agency defines urban heat islands as urbanized areas that experience higher temperatures than outlying areas. This is because these areas have more buildings, roads, and concrete, with limited greenery, meaning that more heat is absorbed with little relief. Planting more trees and implementing more greenspace could have incredibly positive effects for these communities. Additionally, certain communities are much more likely to be impacted by excess urban heat. Low-income and communities with higher percentages of people of color tend to live in neighborhoods with higher temperatures relative to other neighborhoods even within the same city. These threatened areas are likely to feel the effects of climate change much sooner, resulting in higher rates of illness and premature heat-related deaths for residents. This means that better heat-reducing infrastructure is truly crucial to promoting equity and justice for all communities in the face of climate change. We can achieve this by funding natural solutions to promote natural spaces in cities and other heat-reducing infrastructure.