On one leafy block in a Brooklyn neighborhood, the “green view index”–measuring the percentage of canopy cover from trees–is 25%. On another, just a few blocks away, the difference is stark: The index ...

First off, who knew there was a census for trees? The tree census takes place every ten years, with the last census in 2005 and the next one occurring this year. Jill Hubley, a web developer from ...

Long time East Village resident Michael Natale really loves Tompkins Square Park. So much so, in fact, that the nature lover spent four years creating an incredibly detailed map of the green space’s ...

About 19 per cent of Windsor is covered by a canopy of some 70,000 trees and now residents can take a close-up look at where the city-owned ones are with a new mapping project by a local architectural ...

This year’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree was chopped down in Rensselaer County, New York. Statistically speaking, that’s unusual. While New York state is one of the 10 leading producers of ...