PHOENIX — The city of Phoenix is taking action in its fight against relentless heat by updating an existing plan to cool the streets with trees and shade structures. The City Council voted Wednesday ...

PHOENIX — More shade cover is coming to Phoenix after a unanimous City Council vote to pass the Shade Phoenix Plan on Wednesday. It is an update to the to the city’s 2010 plan to provide protections ...

A pedestrian takes a bottle of water at a Salvation Army hydration station during a heatwave as temperatures hit 115-degrees, Tuesday, June 15, 2021, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) PHOENIX ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In November, the city approved a new plan, Shade Phoenix, to ...

More shade is coming to Phoenix, city leaders hope — and they're putting up the money to make it happen. Phoenix's heat office presented an updated plan for how the city could provide more shade after ...

According to the Los Angeles Times and the Phoenix Business Journal, the city of Phoenix is looking into planting more trees in order to create a canopy over the city. The LA Times spoke to Richard ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It was a relatively cool spring day in Phoenix, Arizona, as a tree-planting crew dug ...

The Office of Heat Response and Mitigation has requested $60 million over the next five years to plant 27,000 new trees and build 550 new shade structures. The measure passed unanimously with an 8-0 ...

Just about everyone in Phoenix agrees on one thing: According to 90% of residents surveyed by the city, there’s not enough shade. How bad is it? An interactive map released Wednesday by the Washington ...

PHOENIX — With temperatures only getting hotter in Phoenix, the city is rolling out its plan to get more trees into neighborhoods that have long been without much shade to combat heat. The city admits ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Volunteers and staff gathered together to plant dozens of trees to create more shade for the Maryvale neighborhood on Friday. Maryvale is a Phoenix neighborhood with historically ...