Urban trees can lower local air temperatures by 8-12 degrees Celsius in Central European cities, and up to 12 degrees Celsius at pedestrian level through radiation blockage and transpiration. This isn ...

Cities are living organisms — constantly growing, shifting, and reshaping themselves around the people who inhabit them. But not all parts of a city grow evenly. One of the clearest indicators of ...

Vasef is the executive director of Friends of Trees, a nonprofit organization that has planted 900,000 trees and native shrubs in western Oregon and southwest Washington since 1989. The recent report ...

WITH ONE ORGANIZATION WORKING TO IMPROVE THE CITY’S TREE CANOPY. BACK IN 2015, A STUDY DETERMINED THAT LOUISVILLE LOSES OVER 54,000 TREES PER YEAR. BUT THANKS TO COMMUNITY EFFORTS LIKE THIS ONE, THAT ...

Volunteers plant trees in a backyard of a south Palo Alto home on Dec. 4, 2021 as part of Canopy’s planting event. Photo by Gennady Sheyner. In the early 1980s and 1990s, Palo Alto’s street trees were ...

Trees cover less than a quarter of most Dayton neighborhoods, and the city has lost thousands of street trees over the last several decades. But the city is going to develop a plan to try to maintain ...

An urban tree canopy assessment completed for Wilmington using 2016 aerial imagery found the city had 48.1% canopy cover, ...

Since 2011, Charlotte City Council has rallied behind a goal to restore the city’s most effective natural air conditioning system: trees. However, residential development, storm damage and an aging ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — As advocates work toward their goal of attaining 30% canopy cover across the city by 2035, a new study tackled fundamental questions at the heart of the effort: How much canopy ...