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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Scientists have used high-resolution satellite images to create a map of global canopy heights, and to also develop an AI model that can predict ...

On a gray January morning, in a muddy right-of-way near the Kentucky Exposition Center, a crew of contractors worked a half-dozen bald cypresses into the earth, part of a project in anticipation of a ...