In 2010, Phoenix City Council approved an ambitious goal to plant enough trees to shade 25% of the city by 2030. Thirteen years later, city officials don't know how much progress they've made, if any.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In central Phoenix, rows of multidecadal Aleppo pines and evergreens form lush corridors along residential city streets. Their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More shade is coming to Phoenix, city leaders hope — and they're putting up the money to make it happen. Phoenix's heat office ...

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 ...

Phoenix says more trees and shade are coming over the next five years. The City Council approved the "Shade Phoenix Plan" on Nov. 13 to plant 27,000 trees and build 550 shade structures. The vote ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Office of Heat Response and Mitigation is accepting applications from public schools and neighborhoods to receive grant funds for tree and shade structure installation in qualified census tracts — ...

Last week, the city of Phoenix approved a $60 million shade plan, part of which requires planting 27,000 trees throughout the city. Phoenix needs it. According to a city survey, a whopping 90% of ...