Cities are living organisms — constantly growing, shifting, and reshaping themselves around the people who inhabit them. But not all parts of a city grow evenly. One of the clearest indicators of ...

You aren't imagining things, those dog days of summer are getting hotter. Longer, hotter heat waves are becoming the norm, and keeping cool in your backyard is becoming more challenging. Higher temps ...

PHOENIX — The city of Phoenix is taking action in its fight against relentless heat by updating an existing plan to cool the streets with trees and shade structures. The City Council voted Wednesday ...

LIVABILITY SCORE TO COMPILE THE LIST. AND NOW TO OUR IMPACT. WEATHER. AS OUR AREA HAS BEEN UNDER A HEAT ADVISORY TODAY AND THE HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THIS WEEKEND. YOU GOT TO FIND SOME SHADE.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — All tree shade may not be equal. For Alex Kobald, associate director of the Design Across Scales Lab at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, ...

The city of Sanibel’s Natural Resources Department reported that when people think of Florida, they often think of palm trees ...

Urban trees can lower local air temperatures by 8-12 degrees Celsius in Central European cities, and up to 12 degrees Celsius at pedestrian level through radiation blockage and transpiration. This isn ...

Sixty miles east of Winslow, on the windswept plains of the Painted Desert, maroon-colored Triassic fossils recall a forest more than 200 million years old. Felled logs of the ancient conifer species ...

As an urban runner, V. Kelly Turner is always looking for some shade. She doesn’t want to overheat. Most weekday mornings, her usual route takes her down the shadiest stretch of Los Feliz Boulevard, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lights are hung from the tree canopy over the Chain of Parks in downtown Tallahassee as city employees prepare for the Winter ...