KIAMBU, Kenya — Turn into Tatu City on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and it feels like entering a different world. Even the country’s most reckless drivers are transformed, slowing to a ...
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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — With 89% of the U.S. population and 68% of the world population projected to live in cities by 2050, concerns mount about how to address health and environmental issues such as ...
Daley is President and CEO of American Forests, co-chair of the U.S. Chapter of 1t.org and a member of the USDA Forest Service Forest Research Advisory Council. After the hottest summer in recorded ...
Midwestern cities face a dilemma: Remove mature ash trees that keep neighborhoods cool or leave them to be devoured by a tiny bug. MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s Twin Cities are widely recognized as summer ...
This study provides an important assessment of how body size influences the occurrence of macro-organisms in urban areas across the globe. Size in most plants, but only some animal families, was ...
Bangkok lags behind global urban green space standards, sparking large-scale tree-planting initiatives across the city. Recent research warns that despite these efforts, the city continues to rapidly ...
A Southwest Portland family filed a $4.7 million lawsuit Friday afternoon against the city of Portland’s Urban Forestry division and city forester Jenn Cairo, seeking damages after a large tree fell ...
Arkansas has a greater percentage of urban tree canopy than any other state west of the Mississippi River. That's according to TreeCanopy.us, a project of the Arbor Day Foundation, the U.S. Forest ...