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Cities across the world have promised to plant more carbon-absorbing trees to help fight climate change. Research has shown the shade of mature trees also helps reduce unhealthful “heat islands,” especially in poor neighborhoods. But life of a city tree is already challenging and those problems are being compounded by a warming planet. Increasingly, the challenge for city arborists is to keep old and new trees alive, and it's incurring a bigger hit on municipal budgets.

Cities across the world have promised to plant more carbon-absorbing trees to help fight climate change.

As the driest summer in Seattle’s record books ended, trees across the city were sounding silent alarms. It was the latest in a string of Seattle summers in the last decade, including a record-breaking heat dome in 2021, to feature drier conditions and hotter temperatures that have left many trees with premature brown leaves and…

Worsening climate change is stressing city trees’ carbon-absorbing capabilities. Arborists in Seattle, Washington, are seeing signs of stress such as browning leaves and bald branches.

It is possible to use a window sill for different functions to make the most of it: workspace, counter, bench, and garden.