To the editor: Thanks so much for the article about lack of shade on California's K-12 campuses (“Most of California’s public K-12 students go to school on campuses with virtually no shade,” Oct. 29).

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The Eastern Ghats, a discontinuous mountain chain along the eastern coast of India, extend from West Bengal in the north to Tamil Nadu in the south, covering an area of nearly 75,000 km². The region ...