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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

By 2028, Chattanooga could have almost 5,000 more trees. An increased tree canopy should take root and flourish as the city and its partners plant trees around town, using funds from a $6 million ...