Cities around the globe are increasingly experiencing dangerous heat as urban concrete and asphalt amplify rising temperatures. Tree-planting programs are a popular, nature-based way to cool cities, but these initiatives have been largely based on guesswork and extrapolation. A study offers a new tool for urban planners and decision makers to set more specific and science-based city-wide greening goals.
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-trees-cool-city-tool-urban.html
Paper:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2401210121
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@corlin also either paint roofs white or if flat turn them into gardens (and provide funding to help with adding structural support if needed.
Trees cool cities, about 4 times better than painting roofs.
If you paint every roof white, compared to a full grown tree every 20 meters.
@NorthernInvader
Yep
That be the way.