When summer turns up the heat, cities can start to feel like an oven, as buildings and pavement trap the sun’s warmth and ...

It's been a brutally hot summer throughout the U.S., and it's even worse in many urban pockets. Trees can help.

But planting trees in a bustling city is easier said than done. By 2020, the effort was not ramping up fast enough to hit the goal even before the pandemic.

But trees—the right trees—have recently been found to thrive in urban environments. “In the urban case, it had been assumed that a tree growing in the city was struggling,” says Hutyra.

Thirty years of urban tree planting by the Portland-based nonprofit Friends of Trees was linked to significant reductions in cardiovascular-related deaths and non-accidental mortality overall, a ...

Trees cool cities, soak up greenhouse gases and make people healthier, and Kansas City is planting thousands of them. It's more than halfway to its goal of adding 10,000 trees by 2026, and won a ...

Purdue Landscape Report, Using Pneumatic Digging Equipment to Correct Root Deformations, Deep Planting, and Compaction on Established Trees: When transplanting trees, it is important to consider the ...

In 2013, City Council approved spending up to $10,000 from a Tree Planting Trust Fund to engage an arborist for surveying the city's tree canopy. The report that came out of that study was the ...

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.