Some Urban Trees Suffer Under Climate Stress

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Some Urban Trees Suffer Under Climate Stress

Trees in northern cities are feeling the impacts of climate change. Heat and water stress might be hindering tree growth more severely in Boston’s and New York City’s forests than in surrounding rural areas—although experts say more work is needed to know for sure. That’s according to a new study published in Ecological Applications. “There is a lot of research in natural or near-natural environments that are dwindling on our planet, and there i…