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 ...
Seattle’s zoning code is being revised to increase housing. The revision must also consider our tree canopy. Large trees provide shade in a warming climate, protect biodiversity, filter out harmful ...
The D.C. area’s council of governments wants to get at least half of the region covered in trees. After years of shrinking tree cover, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) adopted ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
City officials are moving forward with a plan to better understand and rebuild the community’s tree canopy, beginning with a comprehensive inventory and data analysis effort expected to wrap up […] ...