While the county and U.S. Army Corps tout the speed of debris removal nearing completion, local arborists are raising the ...

Chelsea, Massachusetts, is plagued by what is known as the Urban Heat Island effect, in which pavement and vehicles soak up ...

Why planting more trees may not be the ‘silver bullet’ to combat extreme heat in Las Vegas. Read more from The Nevada ...

Researchers in Portsmouth aim to combat extreme heat by planting 100 trees as an initial step to cool the city's urban heat ...

Plane trees in cities have an important cooling effect even in extreme heat, according to a new study conducted by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and ...

During a particularly hot afternoon in June, my staff and I were walking a shaded trail at Garden in the Woods in Framingham ...

Charlotte’s always been hot in the summer. In July 1970, the average temperature high was 89 degrees. Now, though, those ...

A severe hail storm has ripped up trees and roofs in Croatia while hundreds of fires raged in neighboring Serbia following a ...

As extreme heat becomes more common, urban dwellers must relinquish their bias against daytime darkness and embrace the ...

Boston University researchers found that planting about 2,500 trees and installing 3,000 “cool roofs” could bring relief to ...

The monsoon season is here. Whether or not we get rain is yet to be seen. However, even if we don’t receive the rain, we ...

Experts say it can be more than 10 degrees hotter in the urban parts of the city versus the suburbs, thanks to a lack of trees.