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New York will plant thousands of trees using new tech to maximize foliage impact
(www.theguardian.com)
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
More trees, with all their cooling benefits, is a clear win for the environmental justice movement, as cities around the world seek to adapt to hotter temperatures caused by the climate crisis.
Exposure to trees has been shown to boost immunity, lower stress and blood pressure, enhance mood, sharpen focus and increase energy levels.
This sort of strategic thinking about how and where to plant trees could prove beneficial in dense urban environments like New York City, especially in areas most in need of shade and cooling.
“The trends are historic and persistent; there is less tree canopy in areas that have more social vulnerability in terms of the communities that live there,” said Mike Treglia, lead scientist for the cities team at The Nature Conservancy in New York .
In 2021, The Nature Conservancy released a comprehensive report, The State of the Urban Forest, which found that the South Bronx, a historically low-income area with some of the highest asthma rates in the country, saw notable increases in canopy cover from 2010 to 2017.
“Oftentimes funding for trees and tree-related things gets cut first and sort of at a greater pace,” said Emily Maxwell, cities team director at The Nature Conservancy, which advocated for the law.
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