Perspectives

Read how our work comes to life in forests and communities around the world.

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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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Cooling Bridgeport: See How Trees Are Easing the City’s Heat Burden

Watch to see how Bridgeport is using trees to cool streets and create a more livable environment for residents.

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Extreme Weather

Mapping the Heat: How Science and Strategy Guide Tree Planting

Discover how data-driven tree planting helps cool down the hottest communities.

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Extreme Weather

The Cool Factor: How Trees Are Combatting Rising Temps

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

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Extreme Weather

Cities Meet Mounting Urban Heat Challenges With Trees

Trees offer municipalities an affordable, effective tool to combat rising temperatures.

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Honoring 20 Years of Recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward

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

Two volunteers in matching shirts carry a potted tree down a residential street, ready to plant it in a sunny neighborhood.

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.

A man and a boy dig a hole in a sunny suburban street, surrounded by neighbors cleaning up yards and parked cars.

Rooted in Resilience: Stories from the Lower Ninth Ward

Meet the forces behind a greener, stronger New Orleans.

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Featured Tree: Quaking Aspen

Learn more about the Quaking Aspen. (Populus tremuloides)

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Disaster Recovery

The Long Road to Wildfire Recovery: What It Really Takes to Replant a Forest

Wildfires can devastate vast landscapes in a matter of hours, leaving behind charred soil, fragile ecosystems, and comm...

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A Thoughtful Approach to Healing Critical Watersheds

Trees are a cornerstone to restoring Santo Domingo’s vital watershed, safeguarding both human health and the economy.&n...

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Arbor Day 2025 Wrapped: A Celebration Rooted in Action

Often called the tree planter’s holiday, Arbor Day is the oldest environmental holiday on the calendar — first celebrat...

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Trees and Public Health—a Match Made in Vermont

Climate change is an issue where wins can feel hard to come by, but there’s one partnership that’s being called a “win,...

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From busy streets to recovering rainforests, trees do worlds of good in so many ways. Explore how we plant with intention and focus in communities and forests.

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