{"id":263156,"date":"2024-10-25T04:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T04:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/why-we-may-be-getting-urban-tree-planting-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:10:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:10:44","slug":"why-we-may-be-getting-urban-tree-planting-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/why-we-may-be-getting-urban-tree-planting-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we may be getting urban tree planting all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"899\" alt=\"C8FAG5 York Minster, northern Europe's largest Gothic cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England,UK\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/18143218\/SEI_225700379.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2452466\" data-caption=\"York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK\" data-credit=\"Neale Clark\/robertharding\/Alam\u200by\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Neale Clark\/robertharding\/Alam\u200by<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small city in the north of England. It is historically rich and culturally vibrant, but lacking in one department: trees. According to the council, its canopy cover was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.york.gov.uk\/YorkGreenStreets\">just over 10 per cent<\/a> in 2022, which is on the low side. The European average is around 15 per cent and London has around <a href=\"https:\/\/barnet.moderngov.co.uk\/documents\/s52814\/Appendix%203%20GLA%20report%20on%20Woodland%20Creation.pdf\">20 per cent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>York has plans to do something about this, in recognition of the fact that urban trees have myriad benefits. These include cooling, carbon sequestration, pollution\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26435140-100-why-we-may-be-getting-urban-tree-planting-all-wrong\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UK Neale Clark\/robertharding\/Alam\u200by I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small city in the north of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}