Trees Can Cool Cities, But Only with a Little Help

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Trees Can Cool Cities, But Only with a Little Help

Source: AGU Advances Because trees can cool cities by providing shade and evaporating water into the atmosphere, greening city streets is an often-touted strategy for climate change adaptation. But trees provide benefits only if they’re healthy, and physical variations in urban environments mean that not all trees have the same chance to thrive. Wilkening and Feng identified cityscape features in Minneapolis–Saint Paul that set trees up for succ…