Cities are adding trees and green spaces as one way to blunt the impact of warmer average temperatures and heat waves that ...

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Large clusters of delicate, long-lasting blossoms fill yards with bursts of pink, red or purple all summer. For purple flowers, the Purple Magic Crape Myrtle Tree is a good option. It reaches a mature ...

The schoolyard of the future has trees to play under, or canvas canopies to shade a climbing gym ... like Arizona, which this summer endured over 100 consecutive days of 100-degree Fahrenheit ...

Trees and vegetation provide shade while lowering surface and air ... For Jones, 47, cooling in the summer outweighs that when he walks with his wife and daughter or goes running.

In Arizona, researchers are studying playgrounds where the equipment gets so hot it can burn kids’ skin. As heat worsens ...

Phoenix gets national coverage for dangerous heat, but rising temperatures force New York to confront past and present ...