As cities warm and the need for climate adaptation strategies increases, a more detailed understanding of the cooling effects of land cover across a continuum of spatial scales will be necessary to ...

Global warming means that people are increasingly likely to need cool, shady spots in big cities. And one way of getting that is with trees — lots of trees, in fact. With a new tool called Tree Canopy ...

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 ...