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Explore stories and insights on extreme weather, from drought and wildfires to storms and climate impacts, and learn how trees help build resilience.

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Extreme Weather

The Heat Island Effect: See How Trees Can Combat Rising Temps

Excessive heat is becoming deadly. But trees in the right place stand strong to shield communities.

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Extreme Weather

Why Is It So Hot and How Can Mapping Tree Canopy Help?

Learn why your city feels hotter than ever and how trees are impacting heat on your street.

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Rebuilding Lahaina: One Family’s Journey Home

From ash to avocado trees, one Lahaina family is growing their way back home.

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Extreme Weather

Trees Viewed as Key to Environmental Challenges

A new national survey reveals strong public belief in the role of trees to protect, restore, and strengthen communities...

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Video: A Path Forward After California’s Deadliest Wildfires

Hotter wildfires are reshaping California’s forests. Replanting them has never mattered more.

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Extreme Weather

Cities Meet Mounting Urban Heat Challenges With Trees

How communities from the American Southwest and beyond are cooling rising temperatures with canopy.

Volunteers work collaboratively to dig in the dirt of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans to replant trees lost to Hurricane Katrina.

Video: Honoring 20 Years of Recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward

Tree plantings are revitalizing this historic and underserved New Orleans community.

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Planting a Cooler Future in Phoenix’s Villa Verde Neighborhood

How trees are helping shade a neighborhood hemmed in by concrete surfaces on all sides.

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Rooted in Resilience: Stories from the Lower Ninth Ward

Meet the forces behind a greener, stronger New Orleans.

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Are Some Trees Fire-Resistant? Actually, Yes.

Meet 6 trees that are defying flames.

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The Past is Not Prologue in the American Pacific West

Climate change is altering the landscape of the nation’s driest region. Why is that so critical?

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Extreme Weather

Private Lands: The Next Reforestation Boom?

Huge parts of the American Southeast are privately owned. That’s good news for reforestation efforts.