Paris City Hall wants to create "islands of freshness" and plans to plant 170,000 trees by 2026. It is also ripping up the concrete in dozens of school yards and laying down soil and vegetation.

That is the number of trees that the City of Paris committed to planting between 2020 and 2026, according to its "tree plan" adopted in 2021. More than eight times the 20,000 planned in the ...

Soon, instead of rows of parked cars flanking Paris’s streets, residents could see more trees. It’s part of the city’s new climate adaptation plan, which continues its efforts to become less ...

It was one step in a much larger project: The city aims to convert around 60,000 parking spaces into green space by 2030. On some streets, a handful of spots are disappearing.

Paris approves making 500 streets car-free. The mayor’s plan will close hundreds of streets to road traffic and replace miles of asphalt with plants and trees, marking a win for ...