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 ...

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 ...

With 425 heat-associated deaths confirmed so far, 2023 is likely to have the deadliest heat season since Maricopa County started its current tracking system in 2012. But a new tree-planting effort ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In central Phoenix, rows of multidecadal Aleppo pines and evergreens form lush corridors along residential city streets. Their ...

In 2010, Phoenix City Council approved an ambitious goal to plant enough trees to shade 25% of the city by 2030. Thirteen years later, city officials don't know how much progress they've made, if any.

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, ...

The diversity of trees on shade-grown coffee farms makes them a haven for biodiversity. Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Photos and b-roll are available in ...

Signs of the times: Drive Development advertises a luxury designer home along a fence in the 2000 block of Secoffee Street in North Coconut Grove Al Diaz adiaz@miamiherald.com Tree lovers in Miami are ...