WHYY

New Jersey communities of color grapple with lack of trees, environmental inequity

Power Corps Camden members stand at the site of a new tree planting initiative at Rev. Evers Park. (Tennyson Donyéa/WHYY News) Jay Watson says you can tell the quality of a neighborhood just by ...
The Gazette

Five years after 2020 derecho, Linn County tree canopy still recovering

Volunteers Gena Steele of Cedar Rapids holds a watering bag as Shawn Barth of Marion waters a newly planted tree during an Earth Day tree planting event hosted by Trees Forever in Cedar Rapids on ...
The Progress-Index

Petersburg City Council adopts new plan to grow tree canopy and manage climate change

Petersburg’s City Council voted to approve a new Strategic Tree Canopy Plan for the city during its June 17 meeting. Representatives from the Green Infrastructure Center and presented a draft of the ...
Daily Emerald

Eugene expands tree canopy to combat inequity and climate change

As part of Eugene’s 2020 Climate Action Plan, the city’s urban forestry program is working toward increasing the tree canopy coverage to 30% by 2030, concentrating on underserved and lower-income ...