Trees have long been appreciated for adding beauty, shade and a sense of refuge to our cities. Urban street trees offer a host of ecological benefits, too: combating the heat island effect and ...

Kansas City has committed to planting 10,000 trees in three years. But the city's existing tree canopy is relatively old and under stress by climate change and other factors. The approach of fall in ...

Nanjing, where the research team is based, experienced consecutive hot summer days of nearly 40℃ in August. Nanjing, with an area of 6587 square kilometers, is also famous for its densely planted ...

Urban trees often stand at the center of plans to fight rising city temperatures. Their cooling power seems simple and effective. But new research shows that the truth is more complex. Trees do cool ...

Urban trees provide myriad benefits, while putting up with so much of our chaos. Here's what we can do to help them. I have a dorky habit to confess. Whenever my to-go iced coffee is finished, I dump ...

FILL UP BEFORE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT. MILWAUKEE IS LUCKY TO HAVE A THRIVING URBAN FOREST AND A FIRST OF ITS KIND RESEARCH PROJECT IS SHEDDING EVEN MORE LIGHT ON THE IMPACT TREES HAVE HERE IN OUR CITY.

Recognized as a “Tree City of the World,” Uganda’s capital city of Kampala has set out on a journey to transform its urban forest into a resilient, native-rich landscape. What began as a response to ...