We need to think much more holistically” about responding to extreme heat, said Adam Freed, a Bloomberg Associates principal ...

If you're having trouble keeping your weeds at bay underneath your shade trees, you're not alone ... dense clusters of broad leaves, creating a canopy that effectively smothers out unwanted ...

But the city’s elected officials are now pushing back on parts of that approach ... one-to-one ratio of palms to canopy trees. “The city is adding many, many shade trees.