In the News
Growing Shade Equity, One Tree at a Time (Union of Concerned Scientists)
LA Has Big Plans To Turn A Landfill Into A Wetland, But Delays Are Jeopardizing The Project (LAist)
How You Can Help Refill LA’s Aquifers By Capturing Stormwater At Home (BNN)
How California’s storms are projected to become more extreme with climate change (LA Times)Â
UCLA grads create simple, effective solution to tackle extreme heat in urban areas (Spectrum 1 News)Â
As Extreme Heat Increases, Heart Attacks Will Rise (Wired)
This Is Your Kid’s Brain on Extreme Heat (Wired)
Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Stickier Too (Wired)
For Californians who live and work outside, there is little escape from deadly heat (LA Times)
How are cities responding to extreme heat? (Al Jazeera)
‘He baked’: Heat waves are killing more L.A. homeless people who can’t escape broiling sun (LA Times)
Texas’ Precarious Power Grid Exposes a Nasty Feedback Loop (Wired)
Extreme heat is a disease for cities. Treat it that way (Wired)
Recent publications
Evaluating the impact of trees on residential thermal conditions in Los Angeles using community science (2023 article in Cities and the Environment)
Rx for Hot Cities 2: Reducing Heat and ER Visits With Trees and High-albedo Surfaces in Los Angeles (2023 TreePeople & Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative report)
Cooler and healthier: Increasing tree stewardship and reducing heat-health risk using community-based urban forestry (2023 article in Sustainability)
A socio-ecological approach to align tree stewardship programs with public health benefits in marginalized neighborhoods in Los Angeles, USA (2022 article in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities)
Increasing trees and high-albedo surfaces decreases heat impacts and mortality in Los Angeles, CA (2022 article in International Journal of Biometeorology)