Adding more natural areas across our towns and cities could cool them by up to 6°C during heat waves, according to new research from the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE).
Adding more natural areas across our towns and cities could cool them by up to 6°C during heat waves, according to new research from the University of Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE).
Absolutely! Planting trees helps directly now (well, in a few years) by providing shade and stopping concrete from absorbing so much heat AND in the long run by capturing carbon.