Sentences with phrase «urban trees grew»

Climate change has generally proved beneficial to trees because warmer temperatures stimulate photosynthesis and extend the growing season, and both rural and urban trees grew faster by up to 17 % after 1960.

But, urban trees grew even faster, by as much as 25 %, compared with trees of the same age outside the cities, the team reports this week in Scientific Reports.

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Park district officials say much of the land they would receive, plus some they would be leased, will be developed into new parks and an urban nursery to grow trees and shrubs.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

The heroines who seized my heart belonged to the sophisticated urban settings of Wouk's Youngblood Hawke and Betty Smith's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Joy in the Morning; if precocious girls elsewhere, poised on the verge of puberty, were reading Austen or the Brontës, I didn't know it and I doubt I would have cared.

Platforms such as local forums or Craigslist are an alternative method of finding local foods, but they don't tend to be a place to find wild edibles or fruit trees that are growing on public properties, so urban foragers looking for ripe local fruits rely on word of mouth (and many of them are unwilling to disclose their favorite locations) or local food maps, which can take quite a bit of work to put together.

In addition to the energy crops discussed in Chapter 2, these include forest industry byproducts, sugar industry byproducts, urban waste, livestock waste, plantations of fast - growing trees, crop residues, and urban tree and yard wastes — all of which can be used for electrical generation, heating, or the production of automotive fuels.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

Cities around the country are continuing to see concrete take the place of greenery, despite growing knowledge of the benefits of urban trees.

Susan Poizner is the creator of Orchard People's online fruit tree care workshops and the author of the award - winning book Growing Urban Orchards.